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Author Topic: Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?  (Read 3213 times)

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Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« on: May 26, 2004, 11:08:12 pm »
I found this story in a recent reply to a scam thread in the BYOAC Buy/Sell/Trade forum. If you haven't read it yet; READ IT, I know it's a long story, but it's totally worth it.

http://www.mannequin3d.com/powerbook/

I think I've seen it posted here a couple of times before, but I never took the time to read the thing. I urge everyone to set a few minutes aside and read it - you'll be glad you did!
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2004, 12:11:31 am »
That's ****ing brilliant. Thankyou, you just made my day!
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2004, 12:30:51 am »
I hope he gets a response from the Scammer....
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2004, 01:10:29 am »
O man that was great!
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2004, 10:37:25 am »
 :D

OMG, that is too funny.  I have to remember this in case anything like this happens to me.  Ah, sweet justice.
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2004, 11:05:04 am »
Quote from: GGKoul on May 27, 2004, 12:30:51 am
I hope he gets a response from the Scammer....

He did, the scammer sent him a virus.
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2004, 12:39:47 am »
God bless the Something Awful Goons.  :)
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2004, 03:08:16 am »
It was hilarious but the write up was a bit too long...yes, I read it all.
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2004, 10:25:09 am »
This is hilarious, thx for the post.
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2004, 11:10:35 am »
I nearly peed my pants when I tried to explain this thing to my brother.
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2004, 01:35:44 pm »
Thanks for insisting that this is a must read. I saw a link to it on another forum and didn't bother to look at it. After your urging I went back and read the entire thing. Took almost an hour, but it was worth it! PRICELESS!

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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2004, 04:20:07 pm »
This is such a great story!! ;D
Thanks for the post.
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2004, 04:50:41 pm »
OMG that's funny!

There no justice like P-P-P-Powerbook justice!
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #13 on: May 30, 2004, 07:12:02 pm »
I don't know what the big deal is...the notebook that was sent was about as functional as any other Mac...  ;D

Seriously...that was GREAT!!!!
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2004, 04:40:57 pm »
Awesome work.  Well worth the read!
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #15 on: June 01, 2004, 01:20:44 am »
What did that poor fellow think when he saw the screensavers? If only the screensavers could have been pictures of the P-P-P-Powerbook!
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #16 on: June 08, 2004, 04:01:53 pm »
For some odd reason, I'm tempted to build one of these for myself and hang out at Starbucks.

Ya' think anyone will notice?
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #17 on: June 08, 2004, 04:37:41 pm »
LOL! OMG! That was F***ING BRILLIANT!!!! AUGH! Im gonna add that to my site.
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Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
« Reply #18 on: June 09, 2004, 05:27:58 am »
The original thread of this on SomethingAwful.com can be read here. It runs to 82 pages and will probably take the bulk of the day to get through.
It's well worth it.
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