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    Court documents show that El-Hakim also accessed a banking profile for a Justin Trudeau. The RCMP later confirmed it was not the profile of the former prime minister.

    Emphasis mine. Damn, what a way to fuck up your life…

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      El-Hakim told the bank he was creating fake bank profiles and obtaining lines of credit at the request of the person he was talking to on Telegram, the court document shows.

      I have a hard time imagining someone this stupid having much chance of a good life.

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    El-Hakim said he had been lured into the scheme by a person who went by “AI WORLD” on the social media platform Telegram, according to the affidavit signed by police officers.

    El-Hakim told the bank he was creating fake bank profiles and obtaining lines of credit at the request of the person he was talking to on Telegram, the court document shows.

    The affidavit said the accused also looked at banking profiles at the account’s request; it shows he accessed Carney and Trudeau’s profiles on June 17.

    El-Hakim said he received $500 each time he completed a request, earning a total of about $5,000.

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      That’s shockingly low amounts of money for what is obviously criminal behaviour that will be logged by your employer

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        Agreed. And it’ll probably make the kid unemployable until he changes his name.

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          Criminal records follow name changes so their likelihood of employability would not change.

          Name changes doesn’t give anyone a free pass.

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            I wasn’t talking about record checks, I’m referring to googling a potential employee’s name.

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    When I worked at Blockbuster Video way, way, way back in the day I used to look up celebrities and politicians accounts. All the BBVs were connected to a DB that had everyones account therefore if you visited from somewhere else you could still get access to your account for renting even if you didn’t have your membership card.

    Was kinda disappointing…famous people either really didn’t rent much or just watched the same shit as everyone else.