According to Gustavo Henrique Elias Santos, who has known Delgatti since he was about 15 or 16, Delgatti was a complicated young man. "I always felt pity for him", Santos says. Although Delgatti managed to form a rare bond with him, Santos learned not to believe a lot of what Delgatti told him. Delgatti told several acquaintances what he was doing, but like Santos, they had a hard time knowing what was real - which perhaps made it easier for Delgatti to entangle so many people in his hacking spree. Another acquaintance from Araraquara, a sometime Uber driver named Danilo Marques, was similarly roped in: Over the years, Marques had allegedly allowed Delgatti to open several accounts under his name and helped him to launder money from Delgatti's various scams. At first, Delgatti described the hacks as a moneymaking scheme, Eliezer recalls, but then Delgatti started talking about fame and revolutionizing Brazil. [Extracted from the article]
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