An entire shopping culture had been built around credit. Jacques Peretti, The Men Who Made Us Spend III, BBC 2014
Now, we’re a nation of shoppers. ibid.
The average American has three credit cards ... The identity thief shows us the tricks of his trade. American Underworld: Grand Theft Auto/Identity Theft, Discovery 2012
In the mid-1980s, the giant investment house Merrill Lynch contracted two different firms to clean and guard their headquarters in New York’s financial district .... They held credit cards with which they could enter any financial institution and withdraw $52,000 on any one occasion, no questions asked. The Nigerian cleaners and night watchmen busied themselves for several months photocopying all these details on the company Xerox, before transferring the information onto blank credit cards in preparation for one mighty spending spree. Misha Glenny, McMafia
One night the Nigerians let down their guard and left one of the photocopied pages by the machine. ibid.
Organised crime steals £2 million from our bank accounts every day. Tonight: detectives investigate a gang who have stole hundreds of credit cards. They uncover the bent bank insiders selling our account details and go after an international gang who have made millions of pounds as they target the criminals behind Britain’s fastest growing crime. Fraud: How They Steal Your Bank Account, ITV 2019
One in five of us have cards stolen or compromised. ibid.
Every day in Britain over 230 people have their account details stolen by card skimming gangs. ibid.
The City of London police regularly arrest corrupt bank workers. ibid.
There was a deluge of credit cards that people were receiving in the mail. Yanis Varoufakis, Oxford Union 2015, Youtube 55.42
Amelia’s credit card debt is $16,000 which is just above the national household average of $15,000. Meet the Working Class: Hard Earned, Youtube 47.17, Endevr 2023
It’s a very strange company. Companies are being set up. Money comes in, money goes out. That is totally spooky. Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard, insider, Netflix 2022
A growing scandal involving a Germany digital payments company Wirecard. ibid. US news
Money laundering, gambling, porn, helping terrorist organisations … It looked like a bank but it was actually a robbery. ibid. man in the know
We’re a software company with a bank as a daughter. ibid. company to Financial Times journalist
Part of its business is money laundering for criminals. ibid.
Yes, so I started shorting the company. ibid. UK short seller
I was very aware that Wirecard were spying on us. ibid. Financial Times journalist
The whole thing is fake. None of it is real. They came up with this deep fake. ibid.
Japan’s SoftBank to invest 900 Million Euros in Wirecard. ibid. online news April 2019
The press conference that night was like The Muppet Show. ibid. observer
When Wirecard collapsed in June 2020 investo losses exceeded 20 billion Euros. ibid.