Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin....
Once upon a time, there was a bad little teenage scrote from Kirkcaldy in Scotland that called himself Scobby666 or Duffyson on several UK forums. All was well on the forums for a long time, then Scobby suddenly started to offer highly-priced, desirable goods like PS3s, Wii's and phones at prices that were silly, but not too silly.
Lots of people jumped at the many tempting offers, but the catch was that he asked for the funds to be paid into his girlfriend's account by direct bank transfer, as for some reason he couldn't use PayPal. He also used several different bank accounts, to avoid arousing suspicion.
The people didn't receive their goods and became very unhappy. This continued for a few months, until the people across the various forums started to notice that he was offering the same items on lots of sites, making quite a bundle of cash; on one forum alone he scammed several members to the tune of over £1000.
These very unhappy members started to come together on one forum and hatched a plan to take the little scrote down. The forum created a private, invite-only area where only those who were chosen could join in the plan. These chosen few and scammed members worked away for several weeks, infiltrating the little scrote's life, totally without his knowledge. The members eventually found out all about where he and his entire extended family lived, who was writing what about whom in whose Facebook account, who owned which bank account and where the account was located, who got scammed where and for what, until his whole Internet life became known and shared between the chosen few. IP addresses were traced and triangulated, along with all of his known aliases and internet accounts.
Next, the chosen few started to spread the word to other forum Admins about Scobby the scrote and one by one his outlets for scamming began to dry up. He eventually found that nobody would accept him onto their forums and he was very sad.
Eventually, the chosen few had collected enough evidence to contact the Police. The scammed members made statements to their local Police and all of this information was sent to the Police at Kirkcaldy. The chosen few waited with bated breath, anxious to see what would happen next.
Finally, a message came back via e-mail from Kirkcaldy; Scobby the scrote had been arrested, cautioned and charged and had admitted the offences. Currently Scobby, along with his girlfriend if there's any justice, is waiting for his time in Kirkcaldy Sherriff's Court, where hopefully Scobby and his girlfriend will get their come-uppance.
What is the moral of my little tale? Don't piss off hackers in large numbers, they will take you down every time! It has taken about five months of hard graft and social engineering across several forums to make this happen. How do I know? I was one of the chosen few.... there are more 'l33t' people out there with skillz like you would not imagine... and I bagged the film rights to this a long time back....
Remember: all that glisters is not gold... and all that doesn't glister isn't either. Something that looks too good to be true usually is.
Caveat Emptor....
Once upon a time, there was a bad little teenage scrote from Kirkcaldy in Scotland that called himself Scobby666 or Duffyson on several UK forums. All was well on the forums for a long time, then Scobby suddenly started to offer highly-priced, desirable goods like PS3s, Wii's and phones at prices that were silly, but not too silly.
Lots of people jumped at the many tempting offers, but the catch was that he asked for the funds to be paid into his girlfriend's account by direct bank transfer, as for some reason he couldn't use PayPal. He also used several different bank accounts, to avoid arousing suspicion.
The people didn't receive their goods and became very unhappy. This continued for a few months, until the people across the various forums started to notice that he was offering the same items on lots of sites, making quite a bundle of cash; on one forum alone he scammed several members to the tune of over £1000.
These very unhappy members started to come together on one forum and hatched a plan to take the little scrote down. The forum created a private, invite-only area where only those who were chosen could join in the plan. These chosen few and scammed members worked away for several weeks, infiltrating the little scrote's life, totally without his knowledge. The members eventually found out all about where he and his entire extended family lived, who was writing what about whom in whose Facebook account, who owned which bank account and where the account was located, who got scammed where and for what, until his whole Internet life became known and shared between the chosen few. IP addresses were traced and triangulated, along with all of his known aliases and internet accounts.
Next, the chosen few started to spread the word to other forum Admins about Scobby the scrote and one by one his outlets for scamming began to dry up. He eventually found that nobody would accept him onto their forums and he was very sad.
Eventually, the chosen few had collected enough evidence to contact the Police. The scammed members made statements to their local Police and all of this information was sent to the Police at Kirkcaldy. The chosen few waited with bated breath, anxious to see what would happen next.
Finally, a message came back via e-mail from Kirkcaldy; Scobby the scrote had been arrested, cautioned and charged and had admitted the offences. Currently Scobby, along with his girlfriend if there's any justice, is waiting for his time in Kirkcaldy Sherriff's Court, where hopefully Scobby and his girlfriend will get their come-uppance.
What is the moral of my little tale? Don't piss off hackers in large numbers, they will take you down every time! It has taken about five months of hard graft and social engineering across several forums to make this happen. How do I know? I was one of the chosen few.... there are more 'l33t' people out there with skillz like you would not imagine... and I bagged the film rights to this a long time back....
Remember: all that glisters is not gold... and all that doesn't glister isn't either. Something that looks too good to be true usually is.
Caveat Emptor....
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after all you are the law 
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