--21st July, 7:03 pm—
The girls gave the other guys a call and told them about the plan. As soon as they did they phoned Greg to let him know they all understood what they can do. Kenisha added him on the gang's group chat: Majeed, Bello, and the rest of them, so he could communicate to them more about it...in case anything goes haywire, they knew how to escape out of it so no authorities would track them down. They were all scared at first because they were afraid they might mess up, but they had no choice. Everything had to work out clean and simple. They only had one shot at this. Now or never. They all felt like they were in a heist movie for a minute.
Greg: Ok so u guys ready?
Kani: Yeah.
Fab: Yep.
Bello : (He gave a thumb up).
Greg: Alright. Let's do this.
There was a company that operates in a hybrid. Both virtually and physically. But they heavily rely on virtual means since the individuals in the company, and the customers they are attracting, are diverse. Their brand name was called DemoKat, with a cat symbol as their logo. If you have any product you need help advertising, they're the best company for you. They can advertise and demonstrate to users professionally and get a lot of people to grab that product. They have been effective for a lot of years because their services are top-notch. The only annoying thing that a lot of people don't like about their services is that if you do not pay them, you're going to get a watermark on your demonstrated product. Hence, a lot of people have been buying their services, and it really costs a lot. Their standard price was $50 per month, and their enterprise was $70 per month. And they had no free trial. And so, the gang saw that opportunity. They created one.
Bello sent Greg a screenshot of the company's home page, and then sent him the screenshot of the web page where the customers are to enter their credit card numbers. Greg then created a new home page with a tab saying "free trial" which was at the corner of the home page, very boldened and well designed with the colors of the website. He also made a tab at the top of the page so it would also make it look believable. He created a web page so identical to the account identification page of the company and created another dialogue box that would take in their account pin number so it would seem very confidential to the user, and then a puzzle box to verify that they are not robots.
And when he was done, Greg shared the link to Majeed to test it first. He placed in a random number and it was sent straight to Greg's hacking software. It worked well, but they needed to be sure nothing else dangerous happens. The gang tested the algorithm out a bunch of times before it got to 11:10 pm.
Finally, they were ready. All that Greg had to do was to share the link to the group chat for the extraction phase. And he did. The gang quickly broadcasted the link to anybody they knew who needed their business firms to advertise their products. And Greg realized that the numbers were coming in fast.
On top of that, Bello was good at videography, so any advertising video the company had, he made a short animated video and attached it to the end of the video, saying, "Free trial for 1 month".
Fabulous had a YouTube channel, a Vlog channel especially, so she made a video saying that she was reviewing the product but wasn't doing it because she was sponsored to. And then she pasted the link on the description. And the numbers just kept on coming.
The customer once registered for a free trial would get access to the company's resources. How? Greg had to pay for the price of the enterprise, make the website a MOD, and form it as a link. So, when the user has finished filling the form, when they click on DONE, they would be directed to the MOD link Greg created so they could use all the resources the company has to offer. And now that Greg knows the pin numbers, he could always extract any amount from the customers' accounts without them knowing. It was a whole silent and risky operation everyone was doing, and they were not going to let anything wrong happen until they had reached their mark.
The gang hopped to bed knowing that Gregory would keep everything in check for them since they have done their part of the mission.
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Weeks passed and unbelievably, nothing strange happened. Everything was running smoothly. When it was almost time for them to get ready for school, the team called Gregory to ask how much they have made on a group call.
"Guys I'm…sorry…I messed up…"
"You what?!...Oh my goodness Greg…"
Everyone was just silent and befuddled by what they heard. They couldn't believe it. After all the effort they put in to get this done.
"What did you do Greg?!"
"I…I should have put…the ice cream in the freezer…Now it's melted."
What? What was he talking about?
"Wait…what are you…what for?" Tobias said.
"So, you… could all come over and …celebrate with me …over… $80,000."
The gang was completely lost to what he said.
"Yo bro are you trippin' with us right now?" Bello again.
"I trip you not. We have $80.000 as I speak."
Now everybody was demented with excitement. The girls screamed with joy. Bello was just having his hands on his hair, Tobias punched the air with so much excitement. Majeed just wanted to thank Allah for this.
"Gregory. May Allah grant you your greatest wishes and desires."
Gregory laughed. "Thank you, Majeed. But between us, I don't think He's gonna be so happy that I stole money."
They all laughed a little out of that joke.
"So, what do you say? You guys wanna come and try my cooking?" Greg said.
They all shouted YES to that as they laughed too.
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They all got to his house later and celebrated what they had achieved. They had reached the amount for Majeed's fees to be paid and even had spare more for everyone to enjoy something out of it. If anyone asked where the gang got the money from, they would just say that they got sponsored by an ethical hacker at a multi-million-dollar company for doing an internship work with him. Nobody would find it suspecting. The gang couldn't meet up with Gregory's sister because she was busy doing late-night shifts. They were laughing about it that they were in a heist like in the movies. They watched some movies and ordered the pizza with some of the money they got..since Gregory's cooking sucked.
Sooner than later, they left the place, knowing that it might be the last time they would get together with Greg. But it won't be the last time they get to see him again…they promised him they might visit when they get back home on a holiday.
So Majeed got himself ready for school when he was able to pay the fees. Everyone else did. And now…It was time for school…