But we encouraged submitters to use e-mail addresses that they thought they'd keep for a while, and from a provider which isn't likely to disappear, such as Yahoo!
In other words, the trader asked cash brokers to provide false market information to Libor submitters at other banks that would cause them to submit rates one way or another.
So Barclays so-called "submitters", the managers who gave borrowing data to the British Bankers Association's Libor-setting committees, consistently told these committees that Barclays was paying a lower interest rate to borrow than was actually the case.
There were at least 20 requests from traders at rival banks to Barclays' Euribor submitters to lower or raise rates between 2006 and 2008, according to findings by the Financial Services Authority in its settlement with Barclays.
Would-be submitters must be able to fabricate MEMs that can be implanted into bugs at the pupa stage for integration into biological systems during development, and must prove that they can guide their creations to within three meters of a target from a minimum distance of 100 meters.