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Evaldas Rimasauskas, a 50-year-old male from Lithuania, pled guilty to one count of wire scams, confessing he and some unnamed conspirators scammed Google and Facebook into paying over $100 million for work that never ever really occurred.
Posing as Quanta Computer, a Taiwan based laptop computer producer, the phishing plan netted $23 million from Google in 2013 and $98 million from Facebook in 2015, according to a Bloomberg report.
Prosecutors do not declare that Rimasauskas was straight accountable for persuading the business to send out the cash, however think he produced the facilities by which the cash was sent out and provided.
According to claims, Rimasauskas signed up and included a business in Latvia utilizing the Quanta Computer name and sent out deceptive phishing e-mails to representatives from Google and Facebook frequently associated with directing company with Quanta. He asked that cash for services rendered by the genuine Quanta Computer be sent out to a various savings account in Latvia and Cyprus, accounts managed by Rimasauskas.
He was extradited to the United States in August 2017.
“As Evaldas Rimasauskas admitted today, he devised a blatant scheme to fleece U.S. companies out of $100 million, and then siphoned those funds to bank accounts around the globe,” stated Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman. “Rimasauskas thought he could hide behind a computer screen halfway across the world while he conducted his fraudulent scheme, but as he has learned, the arms of American justice are long, and he now faces significant time in a U.S. prison.”
“We detected this fraud and promptly alerted the authorities,” stated a Google representative, in a declaration sent out to CNET. “We recouped the funds and we’re pleased this matter is resolved.”
Facebook did not instantly react to an ask for remark.
Rimasauskas is set up to be sentenced on July 24, 2019.
