Nigerian Scammer Gets the Laptop He Deserves 36
wiredmikey writes "After switching to a Mac recently, I decided to put my old laptop up for sale to help recoup a little of the Mac cost. I received an email almost immediately from a girl named Rebecca and we had this email exchange." My favorite part is the fake letter from the FBI demanding tracking numbers.
Re:Not what they deserve (Score:4, Insightful)
The scam consists of: I pretend to pay you money, you send me valuable goods, but I really kept the money, and get the goods, too.
That's unfair, obviously -- to the tune of $400.
What actually happened: I pretend to pay you money, you send me a pretend laptop; I really keep the money, you really keep the laptop.
Since everyone has what they started with... how's that unfair? Maybe they had to pay customs a percentage of the fake price, so they lost a few bucks. You could say that, taken as a single incident, the outcome is unfair. (Then again, it could be viewed as a very fair penalty for attempted fraud.) But it's nowhere near their fraudulent gain from a successful scam, and since they have many more successes than scambaits like this, the fraudsters are still coming out way ahead.
You can take your moral equivalence and shove it up your ass, if you can find room next to your head in there.
Re:Not what they deserve (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Not what they deserve (Score:4, Insightful)
Hey, since you seem to have two laptops - how about giving your extra one to a Nigerian?
I think we've all seen what these people do when we give them access to computers.