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Title: Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: JoyMonkey 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!

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: Apollo on May 27, 2004, 12:11:31 am

That's ****ing brilliant. Thankyou, you just made my day!

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: GGKoul on May 27, 2004, 12:30:51 am

I hope he gets a response from the Scammer....

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: NoBonus on May 27, 2004, 01:10:29 am

O man that was great!

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: RacerX 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.

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: NoBonus 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.

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: Sasquatch! on May 28, 2004, 12:39:47 am

God bless the Something Awful Goons.  :)

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: TalkingOctopus 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.

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: Sprucemoose on May 28, 2004, 10:25:09 am

This is hilarious, thx for the post.

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: AlanS17 on May 28, 2004, 11:10:35 am

I nearly peed my pants when I tried to explain this thing to my brother.

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: Stingray 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!

-S

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: blue on May 28, 2004, 04:20:07 pm

This is such a great story!! ;D
Thanks for the post.

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: tep0583 on May 28, 2004, 04:50:41 pm

OMG that's funny!

There no justice like P-P-P-Powerbook justice!

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: Spaced Invader 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!!!!

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: AmericanDemon on May 31, 2004, 04:40:57 pm

Awesome work.  Well worth the read!

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: Zapper 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!

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon 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?

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: Floyd10 on June 08, 2004, 04:37:41 pm

LOL! OMG! That was F***ING BRILLIANT!!!! AUGH! Im gonna add that to my site.

Title: Re:Did you miss the funniest scam story of the century?
Post by: pakchooi on June 09, 2004, 05:27:58 am

The original thread of this on SomethingAwful.com can be read here (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=f25ad58e2e881b04910a67e1bab3e0f0&threadid=1016390). It runs to 82 pages and will probably take the bulk of the day to get through.
It's well worth it.
 ;D