Founder Mehmet Aydın convinced freelance software programmer, Cudi Cumhur Yurdakul, to work on developing Farm Bank in 2017. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Farm Bank started as a Farmville clone, then added real-world farms and shops and began taking money from users. Paul_Osterlund breaks down the story of perhaps the biggest app-based scam of all time.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Click the link in our bio to read the full story. Photography by nicoletung for restofworld.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠#mehmetaydin #ciftlik #ciftlikbank #farmbank #uruguay #turkey #smartphone #pyramindscheme #ponzischeme