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> It wasn’t just a normal sham company, it was able to fool auditing firms (one of the big 4) and the executives got away with it and are in Russia hiding

I was an early wirecard customer, just using their prepaid debit cards, but I cancelled in 2017 because I didn't even trust them to keep a balance of 30€ safe.

Sorry, but anyone who didn't see that scam coming from 10 miles away was either gambling, complicit, or an idiot.



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