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josh has recently been cleaning out his toy box of all the junk he no longer uses or wants. from old textbooks to old ram it all got listed on ebay. the only thing that has caused problems is his PSP. the first time it sold and the guys account “was hacked” and “he did not place the bid” so it went up again. this time within minutes the auction closed with the buy it now, shortly after that was the email….

Josh yelled to me as i was messing around with my new toy… i came in, read that and said SCAAAAMMM. So i said, let’s play along, this should prove to be entertaining. I convinced josh to send an email back telling the buyer that was fine and that he should send payment and details. Next came the payment confirmation:

Obviously this fraudulent payment did not show up in his paypal account but still, it looks legit enough for us, josh sent him a note saying thank you and that he would ship tomorrow using the guy’s fedex account and would email the tracking info so he could receive his payment.

But first we have to package up the psp. pulling from the rather famous p-p-p-powerbook scam a while ago that hit the sa forums we decided to have a bit of fun with the guy.

henry, enjoy your new psp:

and hoping to inflate the shipping costs that the guy may or may not be paying (leaving the option that the guy stole the fedex acct number too) and to more accurately reflect the weight of a REAL psp we added some delicious vegetables to the package (for free).

im not too sure about what the import taxes are in nigeria, but it will probably be the last time he tries to scam josh….

the worst part is this will be the THIRD time listing the psp.

[update] - that is a random internet ass. it is not indicative of anyone’s ass who was involved with this operation.