Six grand and a Rolex: lure of riches sucked me into online fraud
by Meriem Mahdhi and Shane Hickey from on (#50234)
As hacking gangs use more and more young fixers for their internet scams, one 18-year-old reveals how he and his friends made a fortune
Like most 18-year-olds, "Carlos" is never far from his phone, using it to catch up on his social media feeds and scroll through friends' pictures. Unlike most teenagers though, he posted photographs depicting a level of affluence unlikely for someone who left school after GCSEs and is now a junior employee at a central London restaurant.
The pictures showed a life of excess - Carlos and his friends holding wads of cash, clad in designer clothes, Rolex watches on their wrists, and driving around London in a Mercedes.
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