I Cannot Stop Laughing . . . The Scammer Gets Scammed

Posted June 3, 2004, 3:13 p.m.

I always like stories about scammers getting scammed, but this is the ultimate example. Somebody tried to steal an Apple PowerBook from somebody using the eBay escrow scam . . . well the PowerBook seller knew what was going on, so he managed to scam the scammer by sending him a P-P-P-PowerBook! (see below) instead.

Not only that, but he managed to get the scammer to pay the customs duties on the value of an Apple PowerBook.

Take a look at the P-P-P-PowerBook! ;-)

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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W. Cleon Skousen

There are three fundamental states of social being: tyranny (you do what I want), slavery (I do what you want), or negotiation.

Jordan Peterson

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?

Thomas Jefferson

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult: to begin a war, and to end it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

Freeman Dyson

The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.

Robert Frost

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

Augustine of Hippo

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.

Holy Bible

Elected magistrates do not make the American democracy flourish; it flourishes because the magistrates are elective.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Self-fertilization is a risky strategy, which is why sex is so popular among large and complex organisms.

Randall Munroe

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

Elbert Hubbard

Holiness is not a luxury of the few, it is a simple duty for each one of us. . . .

Teresa of Calcutta

The restless busy nature of the world, this I declare is at the root of pain.

Siddhartha Gautama

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel—only a means to an end.

Henry Ford

It would be a master stroke if those great Powers honestly bent on peace would form a League of Peace, not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by force if necessary, its being broken by others.

Teddy Roosevelt

But if we successfully reduce gun murders without reducing the overall murder rate, that’s not really success. The murder victim doesn’t care whether he was killed with a gun, knife, hammer, car, poison, anvil, or blow-dart. Neither should we.

Scott Bradford

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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