They made contracts, fixed salaries, percentages: they were still thieves of course, and they still tried to swindle each other.

他们签下合同，敲定了工资和如何分成。自然，他们依然是贼，依然互相欺骗。

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"We do all the work, then they swindle us, " he complains.

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At the time, they described the sale as "an epic swindle".

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He said criminals there were holding filing parties, at which they would haul out laptops and, for a fee, teach others how to run the swindle.

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