This 25 year old Turkish dishwasher raised $145 MILLION selling virtual cows backed by real cows that didn't exist Mehmet Aydin was working as dishwasher in Bursa who rapped on YouTube under the name Egoman In 2016, he kidnapped his own employee over a rival betting site, recorded himself threatening the guy on his own phone and got 7 years that were later reduced to a 7 month sentence Weeks later he registered a company in Northern Cyprus, copied the FarmVille code, called it Ciftlik Bank and got users to start buying virtual cows for a promised 100% annual return The app had cartoon cows, chickens and sheep priced from 100 lira up to 5,000 lira per animal Every animal "lived" for 365 days and produced virtual milk or eggs that paid out 100% returns straight to the user's bank account The animals needed virtual food and virtual barn storage to stay alive, so users had to keep depositing real money every month to keep their cows from dying He built two physical "show farms" in central Turkey so investors could visit them and see their virtual cows in person Each real cow had a numbered ear tag matching the user's app, so a Turkish investor could fly out to Bolu and see his own animals Famous Turkish actors and the country's biggest TV host promoted Ciftlik Bank live on primetime national television under the slogan "Sizin markaniz", which means "your brand" 132,222 people deposited $145 million into the game over 18 months while Aydin personally stole $42 million without ever building the rest of the farms After this he fled to Uruguay with his 18 year old wife Sila on a private jet and paid the airline an extra $10,000 just so she could smoke on board Once they landed in Montevideo, he bought her a $640,000 Ferrari, a $2.75 million villa and a $1.75 million yacht that he renamed Silam after her Within months he was cheating on her with his Brazilian secretary Caroline, beat her when she confronted him about it and told her "thanks to me you live in luxury, you'll put up with me" When Turkish regulators charged him with illegally using the word "Bank" his defense was that the Turkish dictionary defines bank as a park bench The victims printed $350,000 dead or alive bounty posters and put them up in Uruguay and Kyiv In 2021, mafia boss Sedat Peker publicly outed Aydin's protectors inside the Turkish state on Twitter and Aydin surrendered to the consulate in Sao Paulo three days later He got 45,376 years in prison and his release date is the year 47,401

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