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Note To Criminals — Don't Call Tech Support
Billosaur writes "Darwin Awards, here he comes: Ars Technica has up a story about a would-be identity thief who did himself in by calling tech support about printer drivers. Timothy Short must have thought he'd hit the mother-lode when he stole a PC and a Digimarc printer from the Missouri Department of Revenue, perhaps with dreams of cranking out thousands of fake ids. Problem: he could not unlock the computer he stole and without the necessary drivers, he couldn't use the printer. Ever resourceful, Short called Digimarc tech support a couple of days later (twice), which brought him to the attention of a Secret Service agent, who recognized his voice from a recording of the calls. Short now faces a $250,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison."
haha
Geez, talk about a close call for people living in Misery...I mean Missouri
Probably used too much leaded gasoline when he was younger.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
"Hello tech support, yes I'll hold" KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK "Hmmm must be the pizza"
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood, and laugh at the stupidity that was once rampant our nation.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of idiocy, will be transformed into an oasis of intelligence.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their minds.
I have a dream today.
And here I thought getting printer drivers from HP was tough.
He probably suffers from lead poisoning, that's all. No need to trample on the disabled.
I don't get it, can you Show Me?
music lover since 1969
A positive result from calling vendor tech support! And resolution in record time!
Free Adam Smith! (Or best offer.)
I think he's outdone by the the Chinese gang who took £26billion of fake English notes (in the non-existant £500,000 denomination) to the Bank of England and asked for it in current currency. How stupid do you have to be to take fake, non-existant currency to the Bank of England to convert it to current money? That's the central bank in England, and issues all the currency.
I remember a few years back when a group of preps and jocks from the local private school were busted for selling fake IDs. These kids' mommies and daddies had their bank accounts stuffed well enough for them to afford to properly produce, en mass, said IDs. The fakes were so perfectly manufactured that the only way anyone ever caught on is that the drunken little snobs failed to spell "license" correctly!
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
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Just out of curiousity: /. to learn that people don't RTFA.
Did you buy your relatively low ID from someone on ebay?
I mean... it doesn't take too much time on
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Can't print a drivers license without the drivers. Can't get drivers without a drivers license.