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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."
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Ha ha!
there should be a word for someone who has only ever made one logged in comment at slashdot and completely failed it in the process.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Probably used too much leaded gasoline when he was younger.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
There is: Shteven
before this day is over, I will tell someone 'You just pulled a shteven'. Yeah- my entertainment threshold is just that low.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
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.
losership
Even Google thinks 'Did you mean: leadership'. Maybe failing miserably comes in handy these days.
CC.
TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
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