You always hear about people getting scammed, you can’t swing a cat without hitting a little old lady who lost her identity on the Internet. How often do you ever hear about scammers getting scammed?<\/P>
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Mike<\/a> pointed me to the hilarious bulletin board discussion<\/A> chronicling the exploits of community of tech savvy people and what happens when a con artist tries to cheat one of them out of a laptop.<\/P> A warning in advance… the thread<\/A> is really really really long. You may want to start by reading it<\/A> to get the feel (it is worth digging in a little to enjoy the group as they feed off each other). When you get overwhelmed by the volume move over to one of the summary pages<\/a> to get the Cliff’s Notes<\/A> version.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You always hear about people getting scammed, you can’t swing a cat without hitting a little old lady who lost her identity on the Internet. How often do you ever hear about scammers getting scammed? Mike pointed me to the hilarious bulletin board discussion chronicling the exploits of community of tech savvy people and what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,24],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technet","category-webweird","tag-internet"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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