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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

El-Hakim said he had been lured into the scheme by a person who went by "AI WORLD" on the social media platform Telegram, according to the affidavit signed by police officers.

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El-Hakim told the bank he was creating fake bank profiles and obtaining lines of credit at the request of the person he was talking to on Telegram, the court document shows.

The affidavit said the accused also looked at banking profiles at the account's request; it shows he accessed Carney and Trudeau's profiles on June 17.

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El-Hakim said he received $500 each time he completed a request, earning a total of about $5,000.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Probably beats the 0.004 cents RBC would give them each time they asked Carney if he wanted a new home equity line of credit, or that they noticed that his transaction numbers would make him a prime candidate for the "Sock it to Me" plan.

Carney could use this as a teachable moment to maybe admit that just like the rest of us, these god damn banks are taking total advantage of all of us with complete indemnity, and compromising all of our financial security for unabashed and rampant financial gain. Just another regular old day down at the ol' ArrrrrrBe-C if you ask me.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s shockingly low amounts of money for what is obviously criminal behaviour that will be logged by your employer

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Agreed. And it'll probably make the kid unemployable until he changes his name.

[–] recursive_recursion@piefed.ca 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Criminal records follow name changes so their likelihood of employability would not change.

Name changes doesn't give anyone a free pass.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

I wasn't talking about record checks, I'm referring to googling a potential employee's name.

[–] skeptomatic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I just blocked a AI WORLD message that said something about RBC on WhatsApp last week.