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The former Zulily employee was arrested for stealing nearly $300K from the online store.
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It was supposedly inspired by The 1999 feature film Office Space.
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Ermenegildo Valdez Castro, 28, was accused of manipulating prices for products and altering the code of the company to redirect shipping charges from Zulily to an individual account.
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Based on court records, Castro started making changes to Zulily's software code for payment processing in February 2022,
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which enabled the thief to steal approximately $260,000 in electronic payments by redirecting shipping costs incurred on Zulily customers' purchases which he transferred to a Stripe account that he managed.
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In some instances, double-charging customers for shipping.
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Castro was employed as an engineer for software by Zulily in 2018.
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According to court filings, Zulily dismissed Castro on June 20, 2022, after the company questioned its price adjustment scheme.