Impressive, but seems destined to fall apart. Companies like Spotify presumably have a sense of how “normal” users listen to music. You’d have to spend a fair amount of time mimicking that or you’d get found out eventually. (As he did)
I’m going to claim he was detected by automated money laundering prevention systems when he collected the cash. Spotify learned about it from the feds, or their payment processor.
Besides that, in the indictment it says clearly that he was using the thousands of generated titles and bot accounts specifically to work around new anti-fraud systems. This is a classic cat and mouse game.
Impressive, but seems destined to fall apart. Companies like Spotify presumably have a sense of how “normal” users listen to music. You’d have to spend a fair amount of time mimicking that or you’d get found out eventually. (As he did)
I’m going to claim he was detected by automated money laundering prevention systems when he collected the cash. Spotify learned about it from the feds, or their payment processor.
Besides that, in the indictment it says clearly that he was using the thousands of generated titles and bot accounts specifically to work around new anti-fraud systems. This is a classic cat and mouse game.