An ordinary day in the department of one IT-university. I sit with my graduate. A maid breaks into the office with a phrase: “There is a aunt who says she needs hackers (! ) is I sent her to you.”



A nice woman aged 30-35 enters and slowly begins to tell her story. A few months ago, with many other “not shufflers, but partners,” I invested in a company called, say, “Multi-Member Incorporated” (strangely enough, not “Cashbury”), which allegedly multiplied the money of depositors by betting on sports. On October 22, the office suddenly shrunk, announcing that the money will not be given to anyone. It would be nothing, but the woman came almost in mid-November. Knowing that such clashes are being prepared for months, I understand that the founders have long been forgiven. Actually, I’m surprised that their website still works.



In principle, the level of literacy of the investor (investor? The investors? It could be judged already by the fact that she was looking for a "hacker", so referring to the ordinary aitišnikov. I decided to see what happened to her accounts on this site. There were two — one was invested in the amount of a million rubles (and where do such people get such money? The second was a modest three hundred thousand.



The office site looks really fast, but the personal office was working at the time. The login and password from one of the accounts turned out to be the same and represented something like "*name_owner*2018". Withdrawal of money, of course, has long been unavailable. In addition, this company of successful investors was registered in Hong Kong, so that even the slightest hope of returning money to the depositor, who promised 50%, if it managed to return at least something, disappeared.



Realizing that even Mr. Robot himself would be powerless here, the businesswoman told the story of communicating with Moscow's "hackers", who promised with a hundred percent guarantee to withdraw her money from the accounts of the corporation of evil. I just had to pay it in advance! :) 10% of the amount that should be paid back. But here the contributor showed an unusual cleverness, writing the knights mouse and key that they can take even 20%, but only when they take out. The hackers did not joke offended and replied that they are not doing charity.



But it’s not just the crazy hackers who want to profit from the deceived lovers of the investment hole. The next stage was the appearance on the stage of the "Multi-Member Ink. “” A few days after the collapse of the pyramid, they hung on their website an announcement that for the miserable 4% of the money invested they were ready to return their deposits to “investors.” Transfers should be made in cryptocurrency and to the left wallet. Many immediately translated: they really invested millions and did not want to lose them. A few days later, a new announcement appeared: say, sorry, we had a failure, we have no idea who paid us and who did not. Translate another 4% and now we will definitely return, my mom swear. Well though, our failed client retained the remains of common sense and after the fall of the pyramid did not transfer money to anyone. I hope this situation will be a lesson for her and give her the experience not to fall into such a situation anymore.



I imagine what it all looked like on the other side of the barricades: “Look, these lochs bring everything and bring us money. A lot of things they took from us. Let’s get rid of it!” Everyone took everything, everything closed, closed the office, left, lost all social networks. And only their bots in Skype still throw voice messages, where they teach future successful investors how to make money.