I've never seen a fourchan post I wanted to be real more than this. Oh god this is beautiful.
Think the difference there is that the invoices of the guy from the article were actually fake invoices for real things
Still not advisable..... You receive an invoice after services are rendered, not beforehand. Presenting an invoice for services not previously agreed upon would still be fraud, and unless the company personally wrote you a check, it's either mail fraud or wire fraud.
So you have similar/more legal risks as a bank robber, but you're doing it for petty cash?
We got a "bill" from a company like this that wanted ~300 bucks to "list your companies name on our website". That was it. You paid them, and you got added to the list of accountants that didn't read the fine print. Pretty clever, if obnoxious.
This is common with domain registrations too. They will mail an unsuspecting company a request to pay for “continued domain protection” for a domain close to expiration, which means literally paying them to send another letter when the domain is up for renewal again. The don’t do anything with the domain, you just pay them to mail you letters when it’s close to expiring
In Australia this is called speculative invoicing, and its illegal. A company I was working for was doing SI for support contracts, regardless if the client was active with us or not and regardless of they even owned or used the tech that we supported.
My boss was just sending this shit out without telling the service department and without providing us a copy of the support contract and then we got angry calls from former clients and we didn't know why or what the support contract covered. Eventually I figured out what was going on, and when a call came in, I'd repeat the speil - the invoice is optional, it only covers X, if you dont have X then you dont need support for it, here's the phone number of the boss.
Sure enough, when the boss started getting angry phone calls while he was off fishing and treating his business like a passive income, he was angry at me.
He didnt fire me though, I eventually left and took a big chunk of his neglected legit clients.
off fishing and treating his business like a passive income
What a fucking waste. You scam your way into all this free time and you go and sit aimlessly by the water until a brief moment where you can torture a fish. What a man.
Anon hallucinates a nice daydream
I wouldn't be surprised for a company to fall for it, the part where they said they won in court is the part that's pure fantasy
Yeah, the scam isn't hard. Most large corporations will pay invoices under a certain threshold without questioning it because investigating the bill costs more in labor than just paying it. The fantasy is this guy's magic loophole that was defended in court instead of sending him to prison for 5 years like the guy in your article.
This is a thing in Brazil, as soon as you open up a business you receive random bills from people like OP, people that are starting out and have no experience do pay.
It's also a crime here, though people rarely report it.
And then the judge clapped and the Loch Ness Monster paid about tree fiddy
Maybe the shitty accountants are just disgruntled employees who do it on purpose
It's quite literally fraud.
I once pointed out on Reddit that this is illegal and I got downvoted and insulted over it. So I guess they can have their fantasy world that they share with 4chan.
Trolls? On the Internet? Who would have thought....
I had a client that's a broke ass meth clinic charity once over pay my invoice. I always submit the backup invoices when I give you a bill, so you know what I'm billing you for other than my direct services.
Their accountants paid my bill, and paid me for the backup bills.... that weren't made out to them or on my letter head.
I had to call the CEO and explain to them how they drastically overpaid me and that I'd be cool if they just short paid the following invoice to balance things out.
Can't imagine how much they've paid out erroneously.... makes me think twice about donating to them tbh. Good cause, questionable management it appears.
