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P-P-P-PowerBook for a S-S-S-Scammer...
kormoc writes "It all started with a ebay auction when the seller got a email from a dude who wanted to scam him. It was a normal setup and it went horribly wrong... for the scammer. This has turned from a awful plight for a ebay user to a wonderful prank on the scammer. Throw in some crazy brits with digicams and you have the making of a great story.
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That should get the coffee out your nostrils on a fine sunday morning. Note that you have to download the PDF to read the story.
in soviet eBay, YOU scam the scammer!
It all started with a ebay auction when the seller got a email from a dude who wanted to scam him. It was a normal setup and it went horribly wrong... for the scammer. This has turned from a awful plight for a ebay user to a wonderful prank on the scammer. Throw in some crazy brits with digicams and you have the making of a great story.
Or were you looking for a *longer* summary?
"Herflich, prepare the fake banknotes to pay for the painting of the madonna with the big boobies"
I thought powerbooks only had one mouse button, they have two!
who says the value is far above the real value of goods sent?
:-) ... goddamnit... the scammer could still make his money back....
I agree... after all, if the P-p-p-powerbook resurfaces and finds it's way on ebay, I'm sure it'll fetch far more than a couple dollars (the value of the goods used in construction).
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...
You know that tl;dr is bannable, right?
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OS X would work just as good on this box as the real thing...
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
Personally, I think it's pretty horrible to defraud someone in this manner. While I'm sure this guy in the UK is not totally without blame...
Not totally without blame? Are you in politics? Maybe Rumsfeld could use someone of your talents.
-chris
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The best scammer-scam I've ever seen is the infamous The Holy Church of Fish Bread & Wine. If you haven't seen that one, be sure to check it out.
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If you look at the dates, that was only last week (last e-mail May 11). They know he paid duties on it, so he definitely got burned.
So this pppppowerbook is worth two thousand dollars? And cheap materials are worth tens of thousands?
Somehow, I'm imagining that the folks who came up with this way to trick scammers are laughing now, but wait 'til the scammer sells the pppppppowerbook to some modern art gallery or computer history museum. The scammers sure are smart! They can easily make zillions!
It appears it's already up on ebay. But what I don't get is why it's listed in ten different auctions... wasn't there just one? As cool as this would be to have, I wouldn't buy it from the scammer off of ebay, unless he really really really promised to send it.
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That's the biggest scam ever! ROFL!!!
Powerbooks are silver and stuff and that thing is white!!!!!!!
WTF!! It's like an ibook or something instead!!!!!! That england guy got totally ripped off paying for a Powerbook and getting an I book!!!!!
(sorry, I don't necessarily do humour like that very well... )
Finally, who cares if the intended victim screwed the scammer? What's the shithead going to do, press charges? I'd like to hear that phone call to the police: "Hey, I was trying to defraud this guy out of his $2000+ PowerBook and he sniffed out the scam, turned it around, and made me pay $X in taxes on a 3-ring binder-- now will someone please prosecute him?"
Yes, but three ring binders are useless here in the UK. All the paper has either two holes or four holes in it.
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The keyboard's re-arrangement including: UFAG and LOL ... great stuff ...
The keyboard's re-arrangement including:
UFAG
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LOL
... great stuff ... thanks for the laughs...
The really sad part of this is that some scammer now has a really excellent work of art. It will probably sell for several million pounds in a couple hundred years. That would be about the price of a cup of coffee.
That bluetooth mouse just cracks me up!
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Yes, but if you try to sell it as genuine Van Gogh, you can get in trouble.
:-)
You'll be quite safe selling a genuine V-v-v-van G-g-g-gogh
Someone over in London should pay a bum 10 GBP to go in the babershop for a cut and to ask "do you guys sell powerbooks"?
I'd just like to point out that unlike this picture real Powerbooks only have one button below the trackpad! This is obviously fake!
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...a B-B-B-Beowulf cluster of those P-P-P-Powerbooks!
This is my post. There are many others like it. If you don't like what you read here, go try one of the others.
What the hell would be the point of fabricating an elaborate stunt against a scammer? It's not like anyone was going "Wow, the interweb will love us all!!!!LOLWTFBBQ!!!"
Perhaps people are being told to check it out because... I don't know... others are finding it amusing?
No, wait. That's much too simple. It's obviously an elaborate conspiracy by dozens of completely independant people on the SA forums.
Wow! Great work, man! We're all proud of you for putting a URL into a form! We're lucky you were there, or who knows what would have happened!!!
God damned Farker.
Any idea of the status of the "buyer" now?
Yes: pissed.
We're sorry. The scammers that were sent to scam the scammers are, themselves, scammers.
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I could not afford one from Apple, nor auction sites, so I bought a $4USD white plastic notebook hat I can put papers into and got some markers and used an old keyboard keycaps and an old MS-Mouse and made my own Powerbook. L@@K, it works 100%, runs OSX as well. Only downside is I am now being sued by Apple for making a Powerbook clone without their permission. ;)
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