The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
Dozens of young people were tricked into thinking they were working for a glamorous UK design agency - which didn’t really exist.
Hasnain says:
This was an interesting and engrossing human interest story. This totally flipped the usual scenario of a fake scammer / contractor / employee on its head: what if the whole company was a sham?
“The pandemic changed the way many of us worked - communicating through a screen became the norm. Ali Ayad exploited that. It was as if he wanted to be the next Elon Musk - and, in Madbird, he thought he had found a shortcut. A universe where he would be judged solely by his online presence rather than the offline reality.
And the most shocking part of Ali Ayad's gamble?
The fact that we live in an age where it nearly worked.”
Posted on 2022-02-22T05:57:48+0000