TIL: A guy tricked a bunch of scammers into handwriting a whole Harry Potter book.

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ amodia_x ยท 481 points ยท Posted at 12:00:30 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)


Mathewdm423 ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 12:12:04 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

This is the best thing to have ever been done to a scammer.

somethingeneric ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:26:11 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Frentese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:41 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Lmao, I'm so glad he was able to pull it off

[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:36 on September 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

This one's pretty good. It's also a genuinely pretty interesting article, but some of the stuff they got these people to do is amazing

JJRimmer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:40 on September 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Thats if its legit. It could be some guy wrote an elaborate script.

m50d ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:32:27 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Is he serious now?

NewClayburn ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 17:24:33 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

NONE OF THE LINKS HERE WORK!

greihund ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 17:29:48 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

I hear that they give you a working link if you write out a chapter from The Order of the Phoenix.

RedditXiv ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:00:40 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

It has to be a minimum of 100 pages per link

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ amodia_x ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:31:43 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Try again, for some reason they work randomly.. At least on mobile.

noveltyornah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:43 on September 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

view a cached link

Soylent_Hero ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 15:30:18 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

I can't help but imagine somebody got beaten over this, possibly to death.

Delsana ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:26:23 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Yes I'm concerned it could have been menial labor slaves even.

rgrwng ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:24:22 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

All the handwriting is analysed by computer and the data will then be used to facilitate the completion of advanced artificial intelligence systems for our client, Cyberdyne Systems.

This made my day.

SirToastyToes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:32:24 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

thumbs up

snazzynewshoes ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:12:13 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Check out the 419eater hall of fame.

[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:02:41 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*

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ReleaseTheKrakenz ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:49:30 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

I think the difference in writing is because there were five people who wrote out the entire book, which I guessed because of the fact that there were six people that 'Joyce' wanted the total money paid to and 'she' said that 'she' had other people (not a person) writing it out for 'her'.

The different people will have different handwriting and the last guy was just hella neat.

Delsana ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:55:24 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Joyce may have claimed she had 6 people because she wanted more money.

Joyce may also have been a guy and had 30 people working under her that were slaves, who knows.

Michael_Aut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:20 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Check this page, kinda weird but really neat handwriting.

Nik-kik ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:30:02 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Absolutely beatiful.

That threat at the end seemed slightly ominous. Did they think they'd get their money if they threatened someone OVER THE INTERNET?

Solon-Polydoros ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:28:03 on September 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

I wish I could discover 419eater again for the first time. What an absolute treasure trove it is.

Nimja_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:50:15 on September 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

I agree. My favourite is the remake of the Parrot Sketch!

Rokurokubi83 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:52:54 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Alternative link as OP's appears to be broken. Very amusing though, I wonder how long it took them to write out!

vaneshnevest ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:16:54 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Your link is broken as well

Delsana ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:57:15 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

This is a pretty old story so I'm not surprised the links are struggling.

Rokurokubi83 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:33:31 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Strange, works for me still...

Perhaps copy and pasting directly will work: http://www.419eater.com/html/joyce_ozioma.htm

vaneshnevest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:49 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

How strange - your new link works just fine, thank you!

TheRealSusan ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:29:21 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Hijacking because that link seems broken (even when navigating from the homepage)

http://www.419eater.com/html/cyril_ifey.htm

afaik this is the same content, has the e-mail exchange & handwritten docs

Bbccffcc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:06:04 on September 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Thankyouuuu

RifleGun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:48:44 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

That happened in a sherlock holmes story.

dad_no_im_sorry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:05 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

more like he tricked the guy writing the scam into forcing the guy under him into doing this while knowing it was most likely pointless.

Jabacasm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:35:43 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Omg this is amazing. This made my whole day. I just had to change my phone number because some autodialer called my phone, I answered and said "Hello, this is Jabacasm" and then they sold that to every single telemarketer with robodialers. I got 90 calls a day.

I got tired of them and tracked down 7 different businesses and reported them to the FCC, their respective attorney generals, and the BBB. It took me weeks and I'm almost positive that nothing will happen. You, however, proverbially kicked the shit out of these scammers and pulled the legendary reverse scam. You deserve a medal.

Edit: I just realized that this wasn't you OP. Still, I'm glad you shared it.

AI221 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:32 on September 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
c0pypastry ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:46:13 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

THAT guys name?

Bill Umbridge

notbobby125 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:38:18 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

I wonder if he made them write "I must not tell lies."

KillermanGaming ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:05:33 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Message to OP: DEAD LINK

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ amodia_x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:10 on September 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

It doesn't work all the time. Try reloading a few times

DJ_Corndawg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:50 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Broken link?

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ amodia_x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:55 on September 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Try reloading a few times

TatteredTongues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:31 on September 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)

Below is the information for the payment through western union money transfer, please the names, address, text questions and answers must be exactly as it is written:- 1. NAME : PRINCE UCHENNA OLOLO

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