[oldtownroad]

The article is fiction. The company launched less than a year ago. The founder claims that the company has had more than 100 clients, in less than a year? Pure marketing fiction — I doubt more than 10% of this article is true.

[codetrotter]

Could be fiction. But could also be that the people that launched the company have contacts going many years back prior. Not every company is started from zero.

[pakitan]

Not sure if fiction. But right from the start smelled like a 'submarine' PR fluff.

[jwnin]

Same site that published the story about the woman who 'got scammed for $50K'. https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-w...

[apsurd]

i read the whole story. is it made up? what's wrong with it? it's at least, well written.

[ptero]

I may be wrong, but I think the alleged victim writes a financial column at one of the pretty big houses. And covered scams before. I would be really surprised if that person stuffs $50k in cash into a shoebox for an "undercover CIA agent".

Sorry if I confused this story with something else.

[apsurd]

thanks, you got the story right! It does sound crazy, but that also seems to be the point: scam victims are shamed and it's worth level setting on how "it can happen to anyone" because there's very sophisticated psychological warfare going on here.