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by fbdab103 1271 days ago
A report [0] on the Google/Facebook invoices. Such a simple idea, if they had stuck to a few $500k requests and stopped, they likely never would have been caught. As I recall (not in the linked story), one of the reasons one of the expenses was flagged was because the scammers invoiced a higher amount ($10million+) requiring additional approvals.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706715377/man-pleads-guilty-t...

Edit: Fixed typo