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Kim "Kimble "Schmitz (* 21 January 1974 in Kiel) is a German "hacker" and entrepreneur from the time that new Economy. After a initial doubtful career as hackers he was condemned among other things because of computer fraud, gang acceptation of stolen goods and investment fraud.
Kim Schmitz stepped in the middle of the 1990er years for the first time to the public. In different media it presented itself as a hacker. It was member of the mailbox scene with the mailbox Beverly Hills BBS, flourishing at that time, in which among other things pirat copies and Calling Cards were acted. 1998 he because of computer fraud and gang acceptation of stolen goods were condemned to a probation sentence. Critics accuse to him other members of the mailbox scene to the prosecution authorities to have betrayed. Kim Schmitz distributed, briefly after in the scene it admits became that he partly betrayed acquaintance and scene members against cash to the determination authorities, consciously wrong information about itself.
Afterwards Schmitz in Munich created the company DataProtect, which he finally sold to the Rhine country. By its extravaganten and very wasteful life-style the boulevard press became attentive in the following years on the heavyweighty Selfmademan. With always new foundations of a firm it could not compensate its expenditures however.
Schmitz was noticeable to new Economy to the wedding that by different public-effective actions. Thus it suspended for example a reward on Osama Ben Laden and stated to co-operate with the FBI. Later it turned out that Schmitz did not even have the promised reward. The organization Young created by it intelligently hacker Against Terrorism (Yihat) could not report successes, instead the web page of the group was verunstaltet several times even by another hacker.
In the year 2001 Schmitz promised to help the ailing company letsbuyit.com with a high sum of money the legs. This payment should be made by the freshly created risk capital company Kimvestor. The society provided immediately for scandals by (allegedly) missing legal capacity, incomplete information folders for the shareholders, times and times calling off supervisory boards as well as doubtful liquidity. The announced Investment was never transacted. Since the course had already high-snapped one day before publication of the bridging finance, the public prosecutor's office took up determinations because of insider trade. Schmitz denied first all reproaches, could not however the suspicion not weaken.
On 18 January 2002 Kim Schmitz in Thailand was arrested. He was condemned because of and investment fraud to 20 months imprisonment on probation and 100,000 euro money edition. The court found Schmitz for guilty over with shares of the company letsbuyit.com about 1 million euro to have earned.
After its condemnation Schmitz announced different new business, among them the company Trendax, who should gain guaranteed stock exchange gains by artificial intelligence. At the end of of 2004 announced an illegal Strassenrallye to Schmitz named Ultimate Rallye, which was to take place in the year 2006, but now into the year 2007 one shifted.
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