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Scamming the Scammers

Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by Gorbachev on Wed May 19th 2004 at 6:35am
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Posted 2004-05-19 6:35am
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http://www.mannequin3d.com/powerbook/
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by scary_jeff on Wed May 19th 2004 at 10:19am
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Posted 2004-05-19 10:19am
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That is superb! I want a P-P-P-Powerbook :biggrin:
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by Orpheus on Wed May 19th 2004 at 11:06am
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Posted 2004-05-19 11:06am
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/me fell asleep 1/2 way down the page..
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by wil5on on Wed May 19th 2004 at 11:33am
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Posted 2004-05-19 11:33am
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I'm about an eighth of the way down the page... I see no point in reading on, no matter how funny it may end up it wont be worth all this reading.

Personally, I'd prefer a SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONGUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD over some crappy apple.

http://www.rathergood.com/spoonguard/
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Wed May 19th 2004 at 11:42am
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Posted 2004-05-19 11:42am
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I read the whole thing unfolding on the something awful forums. :smile: The pictures of the p-p-powerbook are great.
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by Orpheus on Wed May 19th 2004 at 11:44am
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Posted 2004-05-19 11:44am
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Alien_Sniper said:
I read the whole thing unfolding on the something awful forums. :smile: The pictures of the p-p-powerbook are great.
pictures were the only redeeming portion IMO.. especially the "Xed out" Microsoft emblem, and the penciled in mac :biggrin:
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Wed May 19th 2004 at 2:07pm
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Posted 2004-05-19 2:07pm
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Look at the keys on the keyboard, they spell out 'ufag' and 'lol' :smile: The firewire port made me laugh.
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by ReNo on Wed May 19th 2004 at 2:09pm
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Posted 2004-05-19 2:09pm
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If you have the time its a really funny story, worth a read I reckon :smile:
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by Kage_Prototype on Wed May 19th 2004 at 2:33pm
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Posted 2004-05-19 2:33pm
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Such length, yet no effort on my part to match it...
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by Crono on Wed May 19th 2004 at 5:36pm
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Posted 2004-05-19 5:36pm
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Personally, I'd prefer a SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONGUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD over some crappy apple.
If it has OSX, its okay by me. Secondly, Mac's architecture (L68..?) is much nicer then a PC's (x86). Their CPU arithmeitc opperations are faster. (for various reasons).

Anyway, the 'scammers' reply was a bit weak, he just sent a Trojan virus ... wouldn't he be a bit more creative and run some javascript on the email page which auto loads some file??
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Wed May 19th 2004 at 6:03pm
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Posted 2004-05-19 6:03pm
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The original p-p-powerbook page got ddosed, but it's not known wether it was the scammers or idiots from /.
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by Leperous on Thu May 20th 2004 at 9:19am
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Posted 2004-05-20 9:19am
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I think it was mass pimpage and a combination of /., SomethingAwful forums, and various random 'news' websites around the internet.
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by scary_jeff on Thu May 20th 2004 at 2:28pm
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Posted 2004-05-20 2:28pm
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What are you on about? SA isn't a news site of any kind :smile:
Re: Scamming the Scammers Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Thu May 20th 2004 at 2:37pm
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Posted 2004-05-20 2:37pm
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The guy posted on the SA forums saying he thought someone was trying to scam him and asked what he should do so a lot of traffic came form there when it got a site of it's own. :smile: