P-P-P-Powerbook is 1337!!!111etc

I just came across the P-P-P-Powerbook site again. It's still funny even after all these years.

http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/

If you don't know, this is a legendary scam perpetrated by a smart would-be scam victim on a dumb would-be scam artist.

Briefly, the intended victim had listed a G4 Powerbook for sale on eBay. He was contacted by the scammer who had set up a fake escrow site to lull the victim into a false sense of confidence to get the laptop sent to him for free.

Little did he know, the "victim" was onto him and a complex scam the scammer soap opera played itself out over two continents with hundreds of onlookers following and paricipating via an online message board.



Soooo satisfying!