How selling websites in Australia got me arrested and deported

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"It was of course completely illegal: working on a tourist visa and not paying taxes."

I thought you found a typo but seems fine. Is there some grammatical error? Thanks for pointing it out.

I think he was providing a tl;dr for anyone who comes to read the article, expecting a reasonable story about doing something apparently legal and getting put under a bus by some oppressive authorities for it...

edit: now that I did read it, that was a decent story though.

Indeed, and such an expectation would have been mostly disappointed, e.g. they gave him five weeks to put his affairs in order before leaving. And, yeah, it's a decent story.

ok, clear, I did not notice hga was providing a tl;dr which makes sense. Thanks for the edit!

hga appears to be giving a summary so that people like me can decide to read the article or not.

In my experience, medium links are often self-promoted low-quality essays. Unless I see a good reason to suggest otherwise, I tend to ignore them. hga for me provided a useful curation service; in this case, to confirm that there were no exceptional reasons to follow the link as I'm not interested in obvious cases of visa violations.

Bingo, and you're welcome.

While I have nothing against medium links, the title can be taken as something more than it turned out to be, I myself wasn't sure so I checked and skimmed it.

Which is not to say the article is worthless, e.g. the author really should have listened to that part of his mind which said "This particular query for services doesn't sound quite right", alhtough their operational security was sufficiently poor they would have almost certainly gotten caught soon enough.

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