Sometimes he hunter becomes the hunted. The prankster becomes the pranked. The deceiver becomes the deceived. And this is exactly one of those times, where a scammer became the scammed!
*cue in thrilling music*
Tom Sheerin is a nursing assistant in Liverpool, England. What he is not is a believer in messages that tell him that he’s won some random lottery over Facebook. So when he received such a message one day, he decided to have some fun!
The guy who messaged him claimed to be a contact from the ‘CEO Of Facebook’ (Hey there, Zuck!) and assured Tom that he would be the recipient of $1.2 million cash prize and a Jeep! All Tom had to do was pay a little delivery fee. Instead, Tom decided to pay him back for this ‘generous’ scam with a prank of his own! And he shared the whole thing on Facebook!
Hop on for an elaborate and hilarious ride of scamming the scammer!
First up, an introduction to the right-hand man of the CEO of Facebook!
As you can see, Tom was already pulling the guy’s leg from message 1!
Of course, there was a ‘random’ selection! And of course, there were ‘rules and regulations’ to follow! *wink wink*
Oh I don’t believe it but yes! The guy did show the money! And it was a very green picture, if I might so add!
What’s more, as proof of legitimacy, there was even a signed declaration by Mark Zuckerberg! How original!
You have to give the scammer props for being so thorough!
Just like any sane lottery winner, Tom began by asking a few ‘relevant’ questions to the scammer. For example, what’s with the cardboard box, dude?
Nice touch, with the whole prostitutes thingy!
The scammer was so desperate to get Tom’s phone number that he probably would agree to anything Tom asked him! Like this!
The prostitutes are so involved in this entire drama, I tell you!
“Are you fully ready to claim your winnings?” Wow, what’s the legal age to get scammed, y’all?
Oh so finally the delivery charges have been mentioned! And as expected, it has to be all cash!
If this were India, everybody could accept digital money! #Demonetisation!
Have you ever had your own ‘private delivery agent’? Because guess what? This scammer very smartly invented one! But our prankster Tom was smarter! He invented Clarence!
Ouch! Piles! That must hurt!
The scammer was ready to send over the ‘winnings’ but Tom just wasn’t ready to settle with the ‘cash only’ delivery fees condition! He tried one more time to go for plastic money!
Alas, it had to be $500 cash only! So Tom found another very important question to ask about the time zone!
I love Tom, he’s so thorough!
Once the scammer told Tom where he could deposit the money at, it was time to ask for another personal detail!
You know how scammers are? Not happy with just one damn thing!
ICYMI, a DeLorean was the car featured in Back To The Future trilogy as a time machine. So nice cheek there, Tom!
Also, Tom wasn’t going to do this mission alone! For the safety of the money, he was going to take a friend along!
Okay TMI!
Clearly, the scammer was not happy with this double date! So he issued a very ‘capital’ warning, like Trump did recently to the Iranian President. Remember?
All caps! Soooooo serious!
Sworn to secrecy, a very generous Tom wanted to offer the scammer a little extra for his efforts. But you see, our scammer is a very imaandaar guy.
He refused! Scruples, man!
Tom decided to make a little detour on his way, to a bar for a drink. Which means he must’ve spent all his money and had to ask our scammer the same question again! Cash or digital?
Something tells me the scammer was pissed. If not that time, then definitely after Tom’s latest revelation about going public with his winning ‘secret’!
You know shit’s serious when the polite scammer uses the ‘F’ word!
The scammer just straight up threatened to take away Tom’s winnings, not even giving two thoughts about how Tom was already spending them!
So now you know, when the scammer tells ‘you’re not ready to claim your winnings’, he doesn’t mean you physical age. He means your mental age!
Awwwwwwwwwww! Did your heart just break? Like the trust between Mikey and Tom?
Things were getting pretty heated up! And Tom was just making one mistake after another!
You silly, silly Tom!
Wait no, Tom isn’t silly! He’s just poor!
Tom was so desperate to get his winnings that he just HAD TO ask the scammer to be his loan guarantor!
After all, that’s what scammer friends are for!
And what do you know! The scammer was so helpful OMG!
I think this is all going to work out for Tom and his scammer friend Mikey! You know why? Because after 2 hours of going at it, they’ve become so close, like family!
I mean, you don’t show your son’s drawings to random strangers who are trying to con you, do you?
*sigh*
Epic stuff, Tom! I hope you and Mikey will be very happy together!