Social Circle Cringes As Yet Another Middle Class Australian Male Gets Sprung Committing Major Fraud Due To His Extreme Online Gambling Addiction

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

A group of everyday late-20s suburban Australians have this week had to confront some very real life shit.

It’s a uniquely 2020s phenomena that none their parents generation can really relate to. Therefore it’s also a trend that has overwhelmed the police, courts and tax office.

In fact, it’s something that nobody could have imagined happening even ten years ago. However, it’s become increasingly common among social circles like this one.

Only spoken about in hushed tones, and discreetly shared through links to court documents, calling this a disaster would not do it any justice.

This doesn’t involve anyone except the middle class Australian bloke at the centre of it, who has no previous criminal convictions at all. Not even a public urination or a drunk and disorderly. He’s had a couple long-term girlfriends and comes from a good family. He’s the type of bloke that never even received a yellow card in his days as a junior footballer.

And still, he’s somehow the same man that has managed to defraud both the ATO, several family friends, and a vast number of complete strangers out of millions of dollars.

Because he’s also a bit of dumb cunt, whose brain’s entire reward system has been hijacked by highly complex algorithms of exhilarating odds and bonuses, incessant media advertising and a complete lack of industry regulation.

But nobody really feels sorry for him, because not only is he a bit of a dumb cunt, he’s also now a major financial criminal.

His social circle are just wincing until it all sorts itself out. But nobody knows if that will ever happen. He’s 28-years-old and now facing serious jail time. When that’s done, he’ll be unemployable for the rest of his life. And the people he’s ripped off will still be fucked

Those who know, are doing their best to not let the story get out control with exaggerations or second-hand gossip. Out of respect for his family and his fiancè – and out of fear that this whole thing could get much worse than it already is.

It’s also not something that too many Australian news publishers or politicians are going to spend too much time talking about – given the fact that they are all compromised by the same online gambling giants that have created this monster – and thousands of others like him.

It seems all the exciting ‘investment opportunities’ and ‘guaranteed profits’ that he has been pitching around town were impossible to run due diligence on, because he was also forging documents and bank statements.

Hundreds of thousands of tax-payer dollars will now be spent trying to retrieve the stolen money. But it’s pretty clear he’s blown the lot on late-night greyhounds and American college football.