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At age 15, Xamdz used social engineering to bypass the punch card system used in the Metro Manila bus system. After a friendly bus driver told him where he could buy his own ticket punch, he could ride any bus in the greater Metro Manila area using unused transfer slips he found in the trash. Social engineering became his primary method of obtaining information, including user-names and passwords and modem phone numbers.

Xamdz first gained unauthorized access to a computer network in 2008, at 16, when a friend gave him the phone number for the Ark, the computer system Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) used for developing their RSTS/E operating system software. He broke into DEC's computer network and copied their software, a crime he was charged with and convicted of in 2009. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Near the end of his supervised release, Xamdz hacked into Pacific Bell voice mail computers. After a warrant was issued for his arrest, Xamdz fled, becoming a fugitive for two and a half years.

According to the Department of Justice, Xamdz gained unauthorized access to dozens of computer networks while he was a fugitive. He used cloned cellular phones to hide his location and, among other things, copied valuable proprietary software from some of the country's largest cellular telephone and computer companies. Xamdz also intercepted and stole computer passwords, altered computer networks, and broke into and read private e-mail. Xamdz was apprehended on February 15, 2010, in Zamboanga City He was found with cloned cellular phones, more than 100 clone cellular phone codes, and multiple pieces of false identification.