The P-P-Powerbook Prank

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Wed 31/08/2005 09:36:47

New if you haven't seen it yet.

http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/

Don't you love seeing scammers get scammed? On a side note, I have to confess I got quite tickled by the "Bond-espionage" lingo that the story acquires at a certain point.

Mr Flibble · Wed 31/08/2005 10:22:41

Jeff hasn't been heard from since.

Ooer.

Maybe some of the London AGSers should go to the Barbernet cafe and see if Jeff is locked up in the basement.

auhsor · Wed 31/08/2005 13:17:42

A fairly old one but a very funny one. If you havn't read it you should.

PyroMonkey · Wed 31/08/2005 13:55:17

P-P-P-PWNAGE!!!

Poor Jeff. Hope he's reestablished connections with the internets.

Mr Jake · Wed 31/08/2005 13:57:16

He is dead

Ishmael · Wed 31/08/2005 14:07:26

Quote from: Hotspot on Wed 31/08/2005 13:57:16
He is dead

How do you know? Or was that just a guess?

Or did YOU kill him? :o

Mr Flibble · Wed 31/08/2005 14:39:57

Like I said, someone should go to the cafÃ© and see if that dude pulled a fast one on him.

Darth Mandarb · Wed 31/08/2005 17:00:20

All I can say is; I really hope this is a true story! With the internet ... you just never know.

We (my father, brother and I - all eBay sellers) get these scam attempts all the time. Usually we just ignore them ... but this might be worth doing sometime. Even if it costs some green to ship, it'd be worth it.

Jeff probably was given instructions to "disappear" for awhile. If the people he duped can't find him, they will eventually lose interest in harassing him. I'm sure he'll resurface after awhile.

Scummbuddy · Thu 01/09/2005 02:55:47

Wow, great story. I really need to pay more attention to something awful. Thanks for the great laugh.

Andail · Thu 01/09/2005 13:15:27

It seems like a true story judging from the thorough descriptions, the background story and the photos included. What triggers my personal urban-myth-alarm is in the end; "...and Jeff was never heard from again", which is a very common type of addition to urban myths, just to spice it up a bit.

Of course, if something really happened to him, there would be no telling....I mean, Leksutin has been mysteriously gone for quite some time, and we really don't know what happened to him.

Esseb · Thu 01/09/2005 13:32:03

It would have to be quite an elaborate hoax involving several people in that case Andail. The events as described occured in, well, real time on the SA forums. I can't be arsed to find the thread, but it's still there I believe.

Nacho · Thu 01/09/2005 14:10:48

I don't get it... Someone offered something and someone decided to pay for it. If the guy in London recieved something different, the scammer is the guy who sent the item, not the guy who paid for it. I would also sue Ebay for allowing this.

But I might have lost in translation, if someone can make a brief explanation to the silly spaniard...Ã,Â :

Why is it a scam?

EDIT: Oh... I think I got it... The scammed tried to get the good laptop for just 500 USD using some internet trick?

Andail · Thu 01/09/2005 14:21:40

Esseb, yeah I said the story itself seemed true allright, but the extra bit which states that Jeff was never heard from again sounded a bit fictional to me.

Farlander, there are services which let people who conduct business send their money/goods to them first, and then cancel the transaction if any part can't fulfill their commitment. If you set up a fake provider of this kind of service, you can make people send their stuff and then just skip paying.

auhsor · Thu 01/09/2005 14:59:58

Here's the 'official' site complete with movie clips.

edmundito · Thu 01/09/2005 18:22:24

The movie clips don't work

Though, this is the best prank ever made. I mean, having actual people in the internet cafe spying on what's going on is just GENIOUS.

If I ever conduct an international prank like this, I'm going to need you guys to help me.

Scummbuddy · Fri 02/09/2005 08:10:43

Hmm, I just got scammed out of a whole 7 bucks on eBay. I was buying Down periscope on DVD for scubachic earlier last month, and i just got a note near the myebay listing stating how 'user is no longer registered".

his last three buyers have eerily similar names to his ebay name and all three have mysteriously become 'no longer a ebay registered user"

So great, I send him an email (which im sure he'll never get) stating how cool of a scammer he is to get a whole 7 bucks from me.

Andail · Fri 02/09/2005 11:07:46

Let's find out his address, and send some local spies out there to take pictures of him, counting his newly earned 7 bucks.