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submitted 10 months ago by remington to c/humor

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[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I worked very, very briefly as CTO for one of the biggest companies in that space. I’m talking like about a month or two. The scam was getting users to register and click through affiliate links which could be monetized to offset the costs of the free iPod.

Shortly after I left, the company was literally sued out of existence for false marketing around their prizes. I was just happy the checks cleared. I ended up making about $30k for a total of a few hours of work, and dodged a massive karmic hit.

[–] Moira_Mayhem 3 points 10 months ago

A rare example of people profiting during the dotcom collapse, I tip my hat to you!