p-p-p-powerbook
Posted: 16 May 2004, 23:44
BEST. SCAM. EVAR.
A guy in America puts a Powerbook on eBay and gets an email from some guy in London who wants to do business using an escrow site to help the guy avoid paying the eBay fees. When he looks at the escrow site it's obviously fake and when he contacts eBay he finds the bidder's account is a stolen account. It's obvious that the guy is trying to scam him into sending him a $2000 powerbook which he has no intention of paying for. So, what to do, email the guy back telling him to F*CK OFF in 72pt font, or just forget about it. He posts about it on the Somethingawful.com forums and soon a plan is formulated. Using a ring binder, a black pen, and the keys from an old broken keyboard he builds the p-p-p-powerbook. Read the .pdf file on that site for the email exchanges between the two of them and the first part of the story. The guy mails the p-p-p-powerbook. Meanwhile, the scammer's address is traced to a barbers shop which happens to have an internet cafe upstairs. People from the somethingawful forums go and stake out the joint and report back with photographs. The parcel is tracked online, with people from somethingawful planning to be there and witness the event when the guy receives the parcel (which he had to pay something like 350 quid import tax on!). Read the last 15-or-so pages of the forum thread to find out what happened next.
A guy in America puts a Powerbook on eBay and gets an email from some guy in London who wants to do business using an escrow site to help the guy avoid paying the eBay fees. When he looks at the escrow site it's obviously fake and when he contacts eBay he finds the bidder's account is a stolen account. It's obvious that the guy is trying to scam him into sending him a $2000 powerbook which he has no intention of paying for. So, what to do, email the guy back telling him to F*CK OFF in 72pt font, or just forget about it. He posts about it on the Somethingawful.com forums and soon a plan is formulated. Using a ring binder, a black pen, and the keys from an old broken keyboard he builds the p-p-p-powerbook. Read the .pdf file on that site for the email exchanges between the two of them and the first part of the story. The guy mails the p-p-p-powerbook. Meanwhile, the scammer's address is traced to a barbers shop which happens to have an internet cafe upstairs. People from the somethingawful forums go and stake out the joint and report back with photographs. The parcel is tracked online, with people from somethingawful planning to be there and witness the event when the guy receives the parcel (which he had to pay something like 350 quid import tax on!). Read the last 15-or-so pages of the forum thread to find out what happened next.
The scammer gets scammed! Excellent news!
