The “smart” NATE application for $ 88 million deceived all by stating that he is a shi

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< p > Nate called himself & laquo; universal & raquo; artificial intelligence shopping. The startup was founded in 2018 as one, where you can buy goods online for one click & mdash; Without filling in forms, card numbers or delivery address. The wrapper is beautiful, but it was literally hiding hundreds of Philippines.

< blockquote > < p > & hellip; however, Nate relied largely on hundreds of contractors at the Philippines call center to manually complete these purchases, & mdash; It is said by the accusation of

< p >Therefore, the US Department of Justice has charged Albert Seniger's fraud & mdash; founder and former CEO startup Nate. The Southern District Prosecutor's Office of New York says that there was actually no automation in the application. And and in general the automation level was close to zero.

< p > Although Nate bought some si decisions and hired Data Science specialists. With all this it had nothing to do with the real functionality of the application. But loud statements worked & mdash; By 2021, Nate collected over $ 88 million, where investors were renegade partners, coatue and forerunner Ventures.

< p > It all started to fall as when the company ended money. According to Min & Amp; Rsquo; USA, in January 2023, the startup was forced to sell the assets. Investors lost almost everything and got losses.

< p > Nate previously suspected that there really was not all & laquo; pure & raquo;. In 2022 they spoke about the mass use of contractors. But now the information has received official confirmation from federal investigators.

< p > Is this a situation for the first time ? of course. In 2024 Amazon & laquo; burning & raquo; on the fact that the Just Walk Out & mdash; & laquo; triumph shi & raquo; & mdash; It was the result of thousands of Indian workers. In addition, Evenup & mdash; The lawyrm also issued human work for automated as a number of Philippine companies.

< p > Therefore, if next time someone says that his service works on a si where you do not need to enter something and do & mdash; will need more skeptical. Perhaps somewhere in Manila or New Deli now is just running another night shift.