*UNLOCKED* Wirecard: The Shaved Poodle Affair feat. Dan McCrum
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Is This a Fraud?
The Wirecard scam was the brainchild of a few strange German men, most notably Jan Marcelek. After sitting next to Hustler magazine's Larry Flint on a plane, one man decides to make money by processing payments for pornography online. At every stage that this model was challenged, everyone involved up to and including the German state just kept doubling down. And then 30 years later, Edo Kurdiawan is like flying around the entire world trying to improvise Filipino fishing huts into looking like payment processors. The whole story itself kind of has the arc of a Scorsese movie where a guy, a German guy. They find this great business though. So he gives up on
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