Ivaldis Ramasakoukas sent fake invoices to Google and Facebook for $122 million in services never delivered, and they paid him. The speaker, who once lived on food stamps and Section 8 housing, marvels at the audacity of the scheme.
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Ivaldis Ramasakoukas. Sound maybe a little Russian, I don't know. But let me tell you what he did that was just absolutely genius in Hittalink News. Okay, now he billed Google and Facebook $122 million worth of bogus invoices. He billed them, which means here's your invoice. He sent them emails. Here's your invoice, Google. Here's your invoice, Facebook. This "this is what you owe us for doing said bogus service," which means he didn't do the service at all. And they paid it. They paid the money. I said, "Why couldn't I have thought of this when I hit bankruptcy the first time, when I was damn near living on Section 8 in the projects, drawing food stamps? Why didn't I just think about just sending an invoice to the government and saying, 'Hey, you owe me this,' and see if they paid it?" He did it. What's the worst they could say, no?