Man used $57K of COVID-19 relief loan to buy Pokemon card

Just saw the article and had to put it out here: Georgia man used $57K of COVID-19 relief loan to buy Pokemon card, feds say

Props to whoever finds out what card the madlad bought :face_with_spiral_eyes:

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total chad move tbh

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Maybe he was just trying to get back the Zard he sold to get through the pandemic

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“I b-b-b-bought a p-p-p-pokemon card with corona money!”

Imagine having to say that when the gang recruiter comes to check your paperwork. Poor bastard.

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The real crime is not reporting WHICH card he bought.

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It says that the card was purchased “for $57,789” – that should narrow it down a lot. The thing that complicates figuring out which card it was is that we don’t know if that figure includes sales tax/buyer’s premium/etc.

if he bought; vintage = based, modern = straight to jail

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Yeah, for sure – could’ve been a private sale though…

Curiosity has me itching to find out

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Wotc :face_vomiting:

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Prior to buyer’s premium, this was roughly $57,600 at the time of purchase, and the highly specific number could be due to adding decimals to the yen conversion (I simply did 6.4M @ 0.0090 July 5 2021, but 6.4M @ 0.00903 is $57,792 for example).

ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auction/item/itemInfoEn.html?index=663073

Edit - from the article I gather the purchase was made in January 2021 so wouldn’t be this

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He was given the money in August 2020, and 5 months later bought the card. So that would be January 2021 then roughly.

Edit: found it

www.pwccmarketplace.com/items/2533490

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LMAOOO!!!

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Found in 1 hour - I love this website

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Alright FBI, you blew your cover

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@kpod, seems reasonable to me, free my boy - not guilty!

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@effectspore,

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Wow this is ridiculous on so many levels. Very immoral considering the intent of the loan. Good they were caught.

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Man that guy is such a TIMMY!

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I spent 20k of my Super early release on Pokemon hehe

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Someone give this a guy a medal for his accomplishment :grin: