Sydney man ‘sold scammed Netflix, Hulu and Spotify accounts’

A Sydney man who allegedly earned hundreds of thousands of dollars through selling scammed Netflix, Hulu and Spotify accounts has been granted bail following a joint international cybercrime investigation by the Australian Federal Police and the FBI.

A northern beaches man who allegedly earned $300,000 through selling stolen Spotify, Hulu and Netflix accounts has been granted bail at a Sydney court.

Evan McMahon, 21, appeared in Central Local Court facing a slew of cybercrime charges Wednesday where he was granted strict conditional bail and provided a $200,000 surety.

He has been ordered to only possess one phone, which cannot use the internet, surrender his passport and may not be within a kilometre of an international travel terminal.

The arrest and charges come after nearly a year-long joint investigation by the Australian Federal Police, who were tipped off by the American FBI in May 2018.

Evan McMahon has been granted bail after being charged with cybercrime offences.

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During his arrest, police seized electronic materials and various amounts of cryptocurrencies from his Dee Why home.

Officers have been investigating if Mr McMahon had a role with the account generator website called WickedGen.

Officers from the AFP will allege Mr McMahon was the administrator of the website and earned $300,000.

The website operated for two years selling stolen account details for online subscription services from people around the world, including Australia and the United States.

The 21-year-old has been charged with dealing in the proceeds of crime, false or misleading information, dealing in identification information, providing circumvention service for a technological protection measure and unauthorised access to restricted data.

He faces up to 20-years behind bars if convicted.

The Mosman High graduate was supported by his parents in court who were not aware of the scheme he was allegedly running until his arrest.

McMahon allegedly earned hundreds of thousands of dollars through selling scammed Netflix, Hulu and Spotify accounts.

His lawyer Mark Peoples of MH Peoples & CO said it was difficult to explain the case.

“He is a young fella, and it is a very complicated computer fraud case — it is very hard to explain it all you need to be an IT expert to understand it all,” he said.

“It is only early days yet, Mr McMahon was only arrested yesterday.”

Mr McMahon was formerly an employee of Finder.com who terminated his contract upon finding out about his arrest.

“Due to the nature of the charges, we needed to act in a manner consistent with our values, obligations and duties,” a spokeswoman told The Daily Telegraph.

The 21-year-old has a history of working with computers earning praise from his then Mosman State High Principal Susan Wyatt.

In 2015, Ms Wyatt wrote in a school newsletter “Evan McMahon developed WebTrack, a website analytics program which can track the browsing habits and statistics for website visitors in real time.”