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Posted: 10/26/2021 8:37:20 PM EDT
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A woman was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison and ordered to pay $31.8 million in restitution after being convicted of running a counterfeit coupon ring in Virginia. Lori Ann Talens, 41, was ordered to pay the money to the retailers and manufacturers who suffered losses in her coupon scheme. Her husband was also convicted for supporting the scheme and sentenced to 87 months in prison, according to a release by the FBI. View Quote I wonder how far behind the IRS will be looking to seize her assets for unpaid taxes? |
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There is a HUGE ring doing this. I wonder how deep the FBI will go or if they are just skimming the high $ top folks.
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I wonder how far behind the IRS will be looking to seize her assets for unpaid taxes?
Of course those dirty fucks smell blood in the water. It's ok for Wal-Mart, Target, the IRS, etc to scam people out of trillions and bazillions but she can't do that? |
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12 years in prison and $31m in restitution?
I hate a thief as much as the next guy, but lifetime indentured servitude seems awfully harsh for a coupon scam that netted her basically $133k/yr for 3 years. Particularly in light of some of the crimes that the FBI has publicly ignored over the past decade or so. |
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How do people that are running multimillion dollar scams not have go money, a plan with codes, and means?
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She can serve her full sentence at my house under my custody I will make her into a good girl again.
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View Quote Yeah, looking at the way that coat sticks out, you can tell she has some extreme coupons. |
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Quoted: One job dude. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/340387/c54a14247fee637fe81922c0e19439-2144581.jpg View Quote Not guilty. Bathe her and bring her to me. |
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I'll keep her tied up in my basement and feed her for a few years if they want to save some tax money
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31 million dollars in coupons?
Were these gift cards? I'm confused (and a little bit interested) in what the actual hustle was |
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View Quote Decent looks, and good taste in cars. I'm in. She will be pretty old in 12 years, but we'll make it work. |
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Wow The "criminal couponer" used her graphic design skills to manipulate barcodes and create coupons for almost any store and any product, the FBI said. With a background in marketing, she was then able to sell the coupons through social media groups for coupon enthusiasts. Talens shielded herself from authorities by using encrypted communication services to deal with her customers and by using cryptocurrencies for payments. https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2021/10/1440/810/David-Hollingsworth-pic.jpg not guilty |
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Dumb bitch. Too flashy.
She obviously didn't watch the proper protocol training film Failed To Load Title |
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Are they making a movie about her story? I could've sworn I saw a trailer about some coupon scammer.
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Wow The "criminal couponer" used her graphic design skills to manipulate barcodes and create coupons for almost any store and any product, the FBI said. With a background in marketing, she was then able to sell the coupons through social media groups for coupon enthusiasts. Talens shielded herself from authorities by using encrypted communication services to deal with her customers and by using cryptocurrencies for payments. https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2021/10/1440/810/David-Hollingsworth-pic.jpg She cracked the code, literally. |
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Quoted: How do people that are running multimillion dollar scams not have go money, a plan with codes, and means? View Quote Because despite the movies, that's not nearly easily done as said? The only "go plan" that I know that actually worked, was the former CIA agent Edward Lee Victor Howard, who was a shit stain that washed out, sold secrets and sold out Tolkechev (the most effective spy the US ever had). He outsmarted the FBI who were embarrassingly bad at sleeping on the job back in the 1980s, ducked out of a moving vehicle unnoticed, and flew to the USSR where he defected as a valued spy. And spent his days over in that shit hole, and died an early death. Yah him. That whole disappear with your million's dream, isn't exactly an easily done check-box. You have to be ENRON Ken Lay level shit with mysterious sudden heart attack death in a small town with small-town closed casket funeral and quick cremation right before your sentence level, to pull that off. |
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Quoted: 31 million dollars in coupons? Were these gift cards? I'm confused (and a little bit interested) in what the actual hustle was View Quote She was printing coupons that the stores didn't authorize to exist. Basically printing money, because she was exchanging the made up coupons for actual money. I would guess that the 31 million dollars number, is the amount of money that the court decided that she cost the stores. Not that she made that much money, but that the stores paid that much out in value, due to her fraud. |
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Meanwhile, our politicians make millions illegally every year on insider trading & nobody says shit
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Counterfeit coupons and their production is how I was introduced to 4chan.
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Her biggest mistake was running this inside the boarders of the US. Move it to Costa Rica and they couldn't touch her. Hell they likely would never have found her.
Just sayin' |
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Quoted: It always struck me as odd how there's people selling coupons (and making a shit ton of money) on ebay. View Quote It's like someone gave you a gift card for $100 to a candle store, but you don't want any candles. So you might sell it to someone who wants it, for $10 less than it's worth. You get cash you want and the buyer gets a gained value but only for a specific thing. People do it all the time. |
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Quoted: Are they making a movie about her story? I could've sworn I saw a trailer about some coupon scammer. View Quote Queenpins, with Kristen Bell. |
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View Quote Let’s see how the “was that wrong?” defense flies |
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Quoted: People buy coupons in bulk, to do the super couponing thing, where they get stuff for free or the store ends up paying the customer to take product. Once a deal like that is figured out, it usually requires at least X number of the same coupon to make happen, so they become valuable and people sell them. She was printing coupons that the stores didn't authorize to exist. Basically printing money, because she was exchanging the made up coupons for actual money. I would guess that the 31 million dollars number, is the amount of money that the court decided that she cost the stores. Not that she made that much money, but that the stores paid that much out in value, due to her fraud. View Quote Huh, I had no idea. Thought coupons were like a "one per customer" sort of thing. |
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Quoted: I wonder how far behind the IRS will be looking to seize her assets for unpaid taxes? Of course those dirty fucks smell blood in the water. It's ok for Wal-Mart, Target, the IRS, etc to scam people out of trillions and bazillions but she can't do that? View Quote Screen name checks out. |
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Quoted: 12 years in prison and $31m in restitution? I hate a thief as much as the next guy, but lifetime indentured servitude seems awfully harsh for a coupon scam that netted her basically $133k/yr for 3 years. Particularly in light of some of the crimes that the FBI has publicly ignored over the past decade or so. View Quote Corporato-fascism demands its pound of flesh. |
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15 years ago I was on a private message board. They were passing around a "coupon" that netted you a free pack of Marlboros when the gas station attendant scanned it. I never used it as I have never smoked, though I could be sitting on a lifetime supply of smokes.
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Quoted: Yeah, looking at the way that coat sticks out, you can tell she has some extreme coupons. View Quote I'm sure she got 'em with a coupin from Boobs-R-Us Official Ron White - 'Coupins' |
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Years ago I found a coupon online for a free 4 pack of Monster energy drinks, no purchase necessary and no limit. I sent it to one of my friends and he went to a couple different stores and ended up with about 50 packs of Monster energy drinks for free. He said the coupon scanned at the register no problem. A few days later someone posted about the coupon saying it was fake and DO NOT USE IT. |
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View Quote wood-bang with extreme prejudice on the hood a that sweet ride... and would achieve considerable savings on a pack a smokes at the grocery after.. |
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Not guilty
$25 dollars worth of diapers for .01 cent, what could go wrong? |
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