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It's funny how many of Google's "killer apps" died inglorious deaths.
"Just a month before his 20th birthday, Mr. Santos entered a small clothing store in the Brazilian city of Niterói outside Rio de Janeiro. He spent nearly $700 using a stolen checkbook and a false name, court records show.
Mr. Santos admitted the fraud to the shop owner in August 2009, writing on Orkut, a popular social media website in Brazil, “I know I screwed up, but I want to pay.” In 2010, he and his mother told the police that he had stolen the checkbook of a man his mother used to work for, and used it to make fraudulent purchases."
So here we are, 13 years later. Wanting to pay is not the same as actually paying it seems. >

Orkut… fuck that’s a blast from the past. It was supposed to be the Friendster killer from Google. I remember logging in a few years after the hype died down and like 90% of the posts were in Portuguese.