<story><title>Stolen Money on Gittip, Part 1</title><url>http://blog.gittip.com/post/35057426257/money-laundering-on-gittip-part-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawnee_</author><text>The most unfortunate thing about this whole situation is that it was poor Chad himself who ended up discovering and shutting down the fraudsters.  This should not have been the case, and I apologize on behalf of my former employer.  I sincerely wish I would have been able to help catch this before it got out of hand.  (Disclaimer: I am the former Operations / Support / Fraud Investigator for Balanced Payments).&lt;p&gt;As it turns out, the CEO of BalancedPayments is (there is just no nice way to put this) an unethical bag of scum.  He recently went on some kind of insane power trip, completely disregarding the needs of his customers, putting me on unpaid leave for ... reporting an incident of fraud to a bank.  I reported an incident exactly like the one Chad discusses here, but the dollar amount stolen was much higher, and the fraudster a repeat offender.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, after that last meeting where he was sneering and enjoying &lt;i&gt;way too much&lt;/i&gt; the power trip of getting to &quot;fire&quot; somebody, I can confidently exhort that Balanced should not be trusted.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s important that any company a marketplace entrusts its financial data with is an ethical one.  So, yeah, looks like I&apos;m on the job market; ping me :  &lt;a href=&quot;http://lnkd.in/NuBGDY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lnkd.in/NuBGDY&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steve8918</author><text>There are so many things wrong with this post, I would strongly advise you to delete this.  Besides the libel, it doesn&apos;t really paint you in a good light either, especially if you&apos;re going to be looking for a job.  I would suggest keeping your dirty laundry off the Internet, and delete this post.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stolen Money on Gittip, Part 1</title><url>http://blog.gittip.com/post/35057426257/money-laundering-on-gittip-part-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawnee_</author><text>The most unfortunate thing about this whole situation is that it was poor Chad himself who ended up discovering and shutting down the fraudsters.  This should not have been the case, and I apologize on behalf of my former employer.  I sincerely wish I would have been able to help catch this before it got out of hand.  (Disclaimer: I am the former Operations / Support / Fraud Investigator for Balanced Payments).&lt;p&gt;As it turns out, the CEO of BalancedPayments is (there is just no nice way to put this) an unethical bag of scum.  He recently went on some kind of insane power trip, completely disregarding the needs of his customers, putting me on unpaid leave for ... reporting an incident of fraud to a bank.  I reported an incident exactly like the one Chad discusses here, but the dollar amount stolen was much higher, and the fraudster a repeat offender.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, after that last meeting where he was sneering and enjoying &lt;i&gt;way too much&lt;/i&gt; the power trip of getting to &quot;fire&quot; somebody, I can confidently exhort that Balanced should not be trusted.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s important that any company a marketplace entrusts its financial data with is an ethical one.  So, yeah, looks like I&apos;m on the job market; ping me :  &lt;a href=&quot;http://lnkd.in/NuBGDY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lnkd.in/NuBGDY&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shardling</author><text>I looked through some of this poster&apos;s other comments and... they generally seem a pretty reasonable person.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=shawnee_&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=shawnee_&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>