EXCLUSIVE: Hackers breach Andrew Tate's online university, leak data on 800,000 users
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The hacked data includes roughly 325,000 users' email addresses
    • VieuxQueb@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      23 days ago

      At 50$ a pop it’s 40 000 000$ Grifters gonna grift ! Sometimes I hate that I have morals stopping me from exploiting those morons.

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        23 days ago

        It’s worse than you think; it’s $50/month!

        Now part of the problem is we don’t know the average membership length, and it’s further complicated by the fact that the Tate brothers ran the ‘school’ like a pyramid scheme where enrolling another member earned you a kick-back (which is why so many random channels popped up a few years back sharing clips).

        So pulling random numbers out of my arse, if the average membership period was ~6 months and they had ~30% operating expenses (servers, bandwidth, kickbacks etc.) they could have netted ~$168m from this scheme.

        I too, share your self-loathing in my morals preventing me from exploiting these absolute morons.

    • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      23 days ago

      i think registration and actually sending any money will be two separate steps, but it is still lot of dumb people.

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        23 days ago

        Yup, was one of the first bits I thought of too…

        I still paraphrase his “your stuff is shit, my shit is stuff” to this day… 😅

        We really need someone to fill the massive shoes he left behind - an individual able to call out all the egregious bullshit.

  • TJA!@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    23 days ago

    800.000 people?

    Talking bullshit seems to pay very good

    <edit> yes not everyone was paying, but still: </edit>

    If accurate, the site at minimum would generate upwards of $5,650,000 every month.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    23 days ago

    Data brokers will now have a new set of identities for Insecure White Male with No Financial Literacy.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    7·
    22 days ago

    Jesus Christ he has 800,000 users. That’s so depressing.

  • affiliate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    23 days ago

    ”Money making is a skill,” the website states. “We will teach you how to master it.”

    step 1: convince people to pay you 50$ for access to your deranged ramblings.

    there is no step 2

  • gcheliotis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    23 days ago

    Omg 800,000 people (presumably mostly young men) signed up for that bullshit? Have we failed so many that they will seek help with the top douchebag himself?

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      According the “hustler’s university 4.0” website you can get in for as little as 49USD (which is a steal, when the posted before price is 147USD)

      Imagine scamming 8x10^5 for just 50USD each, I mean it’s not like a considerable criminal investigation will get started for 50 bucks, but the chinless douche is walking away with 40million, from that scam alone. And I’ll bet that there will be special courses with an additional charge, as well as merch and PPV webinars. Safe to say it’s not just 40million Tate has scammed kids for.

      • umbraroze@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        22 days ago

        It’s apparently $50 a month, but based on one recent video from a guy who looked into this, there’s apparently a hard sell to “commit” to the program for a year, and if you do commit, it won’t let you cancel or refund, because you committed to the program, bro, that’s a sacred vow, bro, you can’t violate that, bro.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    4·
    23 days ago

    Read the article, it’s so much better than the headline lets on. Trolled him, email addresses, full forum and chat content, etc.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    23 days ago

    My friend’s brother almost fell victim to this cult. If he’s anything to go by most members will be vulnerable idiots.