Filed under: Humor, Internet, Macbook Pro
M-M-M-MacBook Pro eBay scam
If you remember the P-P-P-Powerbook scam last year, then you're going to love the new and improved M-M-M-Macbook scam. Once again, a Something Awful forum dweller by the name of isnoop has documented quite the adventure involving a MacBook Pro sale on eBay, and the intrepid scammer who didn't quite get what he ordered. Check out the first post in the forum for links to the key events of the scam, and marvel at this wonderful entertainment the internets make available.
[thanks C Keigher!]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brett said 4:48PM on 6-07-2006
Enjoyable time waster, thanks for the link.
Does anyone fall for these things, like EVER? You would have to be a complete moron to ship an item to an unconfirmed address or out of the country before receiving funds. Also ebay and paypal make it very easy to tell if an email is legit or not. I don't blame the "scammer" for trying but I would be surprised to hear of anyone being victimized by something like this.
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Robbie said 4:50PM on 6-07-2006
well it was funny up until the site required me to pay to see any further past half of it.
oh well.
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bhiv said 5:13PM on 6-07-2006
That "forum dweller" is none other than the same isnoop that gave us the MacSaber:
http://isnoop.net/blog/2006/05/26/macsaber-10-released/
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adam said 5:40PM on 6-07-2006
i was never required to register. i followed the read link, followed isnoop's update links to follow the story, then was able to read the last 2 pages of the thread
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Caius Durling said 6:27PM on 6-07-2006
Anyone else find it funny that it got shipped on 6/6/6 ?
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Ruegen said 7:49PM on 6-07-2006
Worth the read, very funny!
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bandersnatch said 10:31PM on 6-07-2006
Heads up. The links in the P-P-P-Powerbook post are invalid. Here's a working link: http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/
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deedas said 3:14AM on 6-08-2006
Anyone knows what's the ending to that? You can't see past the 14th page on that thread.
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peeweejd said 8:03AM on 6-08-2006
The package was delivered.
Online maps had the address wrong, it was a house 2 doors up instead of the warehouse place shown on maps.
The police were there to monitor the drop off.
The person it was delivered to was a Vietnamese kid (16 years old) who claimed he was getting paid to recieve and forward packages.
The OP said the police believed the kid and hinted toward a further investigation that included the federales.
Someday I hope one of these internet justice things results in a bunch of scammers getting eaten by tigers or trampled by llamas or something. Oh Well :(
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Elias said 9:03AM on 6-08-2006
People fall for these things every day. If it didn't work, they wouldn't try.
In fact, there was an episode of the People's Court a few weeks ago, where some kid in NY/NJ fell for a Nigerian scammer's tricks.
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Pandaface said 12:02PM on 6-08-2006
I don't understand. I didn't have to pay to read the entire thing. I read it straight through to the end. Some of the people on the thread also said they had to pay to read it. Weird. I guess I lucked out.
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