I always wonder how people who do things like this think they’ll never get caught.
20 years ago, I worked for a pretty large company here in Southern CA. The person that was in charge of procuring and issuing laptops to employees was pinching off stock and selling them on ebay - “brand new in box”, I assume the ad read.
Anyway, the problem with this, of course is that when HW is purchased, the serial numbers are tracked internally and with the vendor. In this case, the latter was what got him caught.
Someone who bought a laptop called the vendor when he had a problem with it. “Sir, this doesn’t belong to you, it belongs to X company, based on that serial number”. You can imagine where it went from there…
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