Scamming The Scammer With A P-P-P-Powerbook

[Ed Hansberry]

http://www.engadget.com/entry/3598374404084695/

"A guy selling his Powerbook on eBay realized he was being scammed by a buyer in Europe with a stolen account — the scam being that you send the Powerbook to what you think is a legit escrow service, but is actually in cahoots with the scammer (one of our good friends actually fell for this once!). You send them whatever you’re selling, and they just keep it. So he decided to scam the scammer, sending him the P-P-P-Powerbook, in the form of a tricked out plastic three-ring binder, instead."



Ahh... the sweet taste of revenge. :devilboy:

[Ed Hansberry]

http://www.engadget.com/entry/3598374404084695/

"A guy selling his Powerbook on eBay realized he was being scammed by a buyer in Europe with a stolen account — the scam being that you send the Powerbook to what you think is a legit escrow service, but is actually in cahoots with the scammer (one of our good friends actually fell for this once!). You send them whatever you’re selling, and they just keep it. So he decided to scam the scammer, sending him the P-P-P-Powerbook, in the form of a tricked out plastic three-ring binder, instead."



Ahh... the sweet taste of revenge. :devilboy:

[Wiggster]

Ah, the wonders that come out of the goons at SA.

I would pay $10 for a copy of that binder.

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

I know I'm going to sound incredibly dense, but I guess I don't follow what the actual scam attempt is.

EDIT: OK. I think I get it. The "escrow service" is expected to collect the money for the buyer, but is actually a front to take the item and keep it?

[dean_shan]

This reminds me of the guy that scammed an email scammer out of $50.

[yawanag]

I'd give anything to have seen the look on his face. :devilboy:

[24va]

Ok, I read 'most' of the 3 pages, that was a crack up

[Wiggster]

Wow, you have to read the thread, it's worth the SA membership.

This scam is the most thing on the internet all year.

[ignar]

Just finished reading the 82 pages thread. 8O What a wonderful story!

[pdagal]

Excellent! I had the same thing happen to me this week. A buyer using a stolen ebay account tried to get me to use http://www.safe-payment.net in order to accept escrow payment for my notebook. The site looked fishy after closer inspection and sure enough the whole thing was a scam. Was tempted to send the so-called buyer in the midwest a box of rocks, but instead I settled on reporting it to the authorities.

[sgyee]

A PDF version has been created of the entire discussion and it's associated EMails and pictures.

I've mirrored it here:
http://www.azhog.org/thepowerbook.pdf