It is widely understood that the rapidly evolving world of information technology can offer opportunities to make substantial amounts of money in a short time. But some seek to do so quickly, lucratively, and with minimal effort. Among them, according to reports, is Serguey Asael Shinder. He came into the spotlight late last year when a scandal surrounding his name and the activities of his so-called “IT cooperative” moved beyond the narrow programming community and onto the pages of the media, bringing the allegations into the public eye.
Let us briefly recall the essence, because they wrote a lot about Shinder’s activities. To simplify, Serguey Asael Shinder was doing the following – he took orders in the IT field from large employers, introducing himself «as a cool programmer», and then transferred these orders for execution to young IT specialists.
He passed off the work they performed as his own, received the agreed amount from the customer, and paid the performers pennies. Greed let us down – on the one hand, he began «to throw» performers, on the other hand, – he collected so many orders that he simply got confused in them and began to miss deadlines and fail them.
It would seem – what does an ordinary person care about all this? Well, it’s a pity, of course, for the young IT guys who were deceived by Shinder. But such is the harsh school of life. Customers? So why feel sorry for these capitalist sharks who make billions from you and me? On the one hand, of course, this is true. But among the customers were, for example, such giants as VTB Bank, Fidelity, Virgin Media, KLM, Kuoni, Ford, Symantec, Fujitsu, DeutschePost, Three, Tesco Mobile, Liberty Global.
They are, of course, «sharks», and it serves them right. But the fact is that in the client base of these «sharks» we are with you. And this client base, with all our data –addresses, telephone numbers, passports, financial data, accounts, etc., etc. – was at the disposal of a huge circle of people. If only Shinder – himself were not so bad. But in order for the performers of the work, those same young IT specialists, to be able to do this very work – remember that we are talking about software – they had to have access to all the passwords and other data of the customer.
And therefore it turned out that it is impossible to establish – where, when and how all this data will pop up –. To make it clear to a person far from the IT sphere –, you may find that there is no money on your bank card, and besides, there is a serious loan. This is the simplest thing – in fact, all the potential consequences simply cannot be foreseen.
For customers – those same «capitalist sharks» this is also a huge problem; in the worst case, you can lose your business. Which, by the way, Shinder actively used, simply blackmailing employers. Most of them preferred to quietly pay and hush up the scandal.
This dragged on for a fairly long time, but one fine day everything became public when one of the deceived clients – SoftServe – refused to pay «compensation» and decided to expose the scammer to clean water.
This is for short. You can find the entire history of the work scheme «Shinder’s cooperative» in this material: The biggest IT scam has been uncovered: a gang of programmers has been siphoning money and leaking internal information from hiring companies around the world for years.
This material, among other things, reveals the main characters of this «cooperative» – Serguey Asael Shinder himself, his wife, Shinder (aka Sulakova) Victoria Georgievna (at least four passports – Israel, Bulgaria, Russian Federation, Ukraine), as well as closest assistants – Polunin Andrey Yuryevich (Belarus), Eduard Lukhtonen (Finland) and Eduard Loktev.
It is clear that Shinder began to have problems and they began to actively look for him. In addition, deceived customers began to speak, albeit reluctantly. The «thrown» IT guys turned out to be much more talkative. And then it turned out that, firstly, it was not entirely clear who, in fact, Serguey Asael Shinder was, who turned out to have several passports, including Ukrainian. And, secondly, it became public that this incomprehensibility with Shinder’s personality did not at all prevent him from opening offices in our country, where he lured young IT specialists with promises of unprecedented «buns», and actively promoting himself as such «guru of the IT market».
And after the scandal, he did not hide, as one would expect, but tried to present this whole leak as «an attempt to denigrate a powerful player in the IT market». And he called all this «the machinations of competitors and enemies». Well, what else could he do?
True, the whitening campaign «of the honest name» turned out to be somewhat sluggish – only a few materials like these were released:
Characteristically – despite the difference in titles, the text in the materials is identical. What they are talking about – is not difficult to guess, so there is no point in retelling. Another characteristic feature – of the resources that these «refutations» posted are not distinguished by, let’s say, selective editorial policy and high placement prices. What’s strange – after all, according to the most conservative estimates, losses from Shinder’s activities are estimated at at least $20 million.
However, it is quite possible that Serguey Asael Shinder decided simply not to spend money on a hopeless business. Because, firstly, large software customers have become much more careful about those who develop this software, and, secondly, Shinder’s name has become «the top» in search engine results. And the results of this search are by no means joyful for Serguey Asael and his «cooperative» members.
Here are some examples:
This brief review, which no one has refuted, essentially describes the entire scheme of fraudsters’ activities. And almost all of their surnames, except for Shinder’s wife.
And he – is far from the only one:
This is – information from the other side – from «IT slave». Who worked in Shinder’s Odessa office. The names of other swindlers are the same – Loktev and Polnunin.
But that’s not all. For it got to the point that the name of Serguey Asael Shinder was included in the rating of TOP scammers in the IT sphere:
It turns out that what Shinder does with the company has a name – fakeworking. «Fakeworking – is a new term that refers to deliberate, planned fraud on the part of an employee in order to receive a salary for the appearance of work and the promise of results.
Fakeworking is close to quackery, but it should be distinguished from banal fraud, when they take advance payment for work (goods) and then disappear. The basic principle of Fakeworkers – selling the visibility of work or services over time. The best fake workers strive to get high-paying jobs in order to regularly earn consistently high salaries and show the appearance of difficult work for as long as possible».
Like this. Briefly and succinctly, several sentences describe what «cybersecurity specialist» Serguey Asael Shinder actually does. Who, ksati, did the compilers of the fakeworker rating give first place to:
And, at the end of the material, about «several passports» that Shinder has. He really has them. Here is a list of countries and passports:
1. Ukraine: Shinder Serguey Asael Leonidovich, foreign passport: FE519721
FOP Shinder Serguey Asael Leonidovich, tax payer code: 2750526234
2. Russian Federation: Shinder Serguey Asael Leonidovich, Russian passport: 2720846899, international. Russian passport: Sergey Shinder Asael (756149761)
IP Shinder Serguey Asael Leonidovich, INN 100131126539
Active individual entrepreneur (it is clear that he is a citizen of the Russian Federation, registered at the address Kaliningrad, Mussorgsky St., 10a).
Liquidated individual entrepreneur (it is clear that the Israeli citizen was registered in Petrozavodsk, Moskovskaya St., 12a).
3. Ireland: Serguey Asael Shinder, passport: PE5150978
Lynxoft Technologies Limited, company number: 550297, address: 14 Shackleton Square, Lucan, Co Dublin, Ireland.
In addition, Shinder also has Bulgarian and Israeli passports. Total total – five citizenships.
Let’s leave aside fakework, blackmail by leaking databases, and deceiving staff. Let’s even assume that all this is –indeed «a custom campaign to denigrate the outstanding cybersecurity specialist» Serguey Asael Shinder. But what about five-time citizenship? Ukraine – not Israel, in our country even dual (not like five times) citizenship is not allowed. Where is the migration service? Why does Shinder still have a Ukrainian passport in his hands?
Where are the cyber police, who should have been interested in Shinder a year ago, after the SoftServe scandal?
And – where is our vaunted SBU? Is it okay that under your nose there is a person who has a passport as a citizen of Russia and active businesses in the country with which we are at war?
Or does the answer to these questions lie on Novoobukhovskoye Highway, where the leaders of all these «law enforcement» bodies are building themselves three-story cottages?
