Matthew Cox
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Well, one of them, but Rolex USA in America, their attorney.
And a text saying, hey, are you going to be at this particular conference?
You know, the conference we always see each other at.
And I was like, that's weird.
The day the video dropped, he asked me if I was going to that conference.
I hadn't seen him in a year.
And I was like, yeah, I'm going blah, blah, blah.
And I thought like, man, is he setting me up to serve me with papers or something like that?
Then I see him at the conference and he's like, no, I didn't know anything about the video.
There was a major case in mid-2000s when spam...
In the mid-2000s, there was a time when every single spam you saw was counterfeit watches, replica watches.
And this is in the early to mid-2000s.
And it was just the replica watch spam was out of control.
You make it into your inboxes, in your spam boxes.
Spam boxes weren't even very good back then.
Spam filters, I mean.
every day you're waking up and there's you know buy rolex watches chanel you know every kind of brand watches you could think of their advertisements for here's a fake chanel watch too there it was purchased around that time um so what we ended up doing was and again we we get our assignments from the client we don't do anything um you know for on spec so a client will send
You know, an email over, hey, can you buy blah, blah, blah from these five websites?
Then we'll make five buys and we receive the goods and we put all that in a package like, you know, what I mentioned here and send it off to them.
Then they authenticate it and then tell us, OK, this was fake.