M-M-M-MacBook Pro eBay scam

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.

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.

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 :(

Anyone knows what's the ending to that? You can't see past the 14th page on that thread.

Heads up. The links in the P-P-P-Powerbook post are invalid. Here's a working link: http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/

Worth the read, very funny!

Anyone else find it funny that it got shipped on 6/6/6 ?

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

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/

well it was funny up until the site required me to pay to see any further past half of it.
oh well.