When you have been unemployed for a long time and you get a considerable amount of money ... What do you invest in? Surely the last thing you would do would be to buy a BMW, a Range Rover, and get some tattoos on your face and neck. Especially if that money you stole and do not want to attract attention (just joking) ...
James Ejankowski, a 24-year-old, is an unemployed British man with a hacker background who discovered a software bug his bank used to manage his funds. When he made a transfer of funds from his current account to a special savings account, between midnight and one in the morning, he could transfer more funds than he actually had.
Taking advantage of this bug managed to steal for four weeks about 135,000 pounds (about 172,000 dollars) that transferred to a account of his partner.
With this money James Ejankowski paid some debts, gave a part to several relatives, who lied to justify how he got the money, bought a BMW and a Range Rover, and paid for the tattoos of the neck and face that were Can see in the opening photo.
The problem with bugs or errors of this type is that sooner or later the bank discovers that accounts do not come out at the end of the accounting period and all operations are easily traceable to their origin. As expected, after hacking the bank James Ejankowski was discovered and reported to the police. He has already been sentenced to 16 months in jail, which he will have to fulfill because he already had a record for a crime of a fraudulent online sale, in 2015.
The Yorkshire bank has managed to recover some 34,000 pounds, but the rest are lost. The bug in the banking software has already been fixed.