‘Rich Kids Of Instagram’ opgepakt voor fraude

De zogenaamde ‘Rich Kids Of Instagram’ genieten ervan om hun rijkdom te laten zien op Social Media. Complete douchebags die o.a. in champagne douchen, met kaviaar ontbijten en een jaarsalaris in 1 avond verkwisten. Jaloers? Mwoah.

Deze Rich Kids Of Instagram zijn echter niet allemaal even slim. Ze helpen namelijk de politie goed op weg in fraudezaken en belastingontduiking/wijking. Een artikel in The Guardian meldt het volgende:

“Oisín Fouere, managing director of K2 Intelligence in London, said social media was increasingly their “first port of call”. Their opponent in one asset recovery case claimed to have no significant valuables – until investigators found a social media post by one of his children that revealed they were on his $25m yacht in the Bahamas.

Daniel Hall, director of global judgment enforcement at Burford Capital, said their targets in such cases tended to be people “of a slightly older vintage” who were not prodigious users of Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, but whose children, employees and associates often were. The firm recently managed to seize a “newly acquired private jet” in a fraud case because one of the two fraudsters had a son in his 30s who posted a photograph on Instagram of himself and his father standing in front of the plane.

“That’s the kind of jackpot scenario one hopes for,” said Hall.”

Een ander medium heeft een soortgelijk verhaal. Deze kids zijn dus onwetende snitches:

Andrew Beckett, managing director of cybersecurity and investigations at Kroll, said the firm uncovered multimillion-pound hidden assets in a divorce case last year by monitoring the location of the children’s social media posts. The court ordered the husband to give his wife $30m, but he claimed not to have such assets.

“We monitored social media, particularly for his children, who were in their 20s, and found a lot of posts from the same geo-tagged sites,” said Beckett. “Cross-referencing that with land registry and other similar bodies overseas, we found half a dozen properties that were registered in the name of this person.

“We were able to go to the court with a list of assets that we conservatively estimated at $60m, which the court then seized until he settled the amount that had been ordered.”