I know this is way-old news, but I feel the need to draw your attention to a brilliant and hilarious scam: The P-P-P-Powerbook!

They say that scammers tend to avoid corresponding with victims using Hotmail or Yahoo accounts, since their demographics contain a much higher proportion of users who are children and have no money.

So I knew that when I started using an actual email address at this domain, I was entering a new world. Little did I know that in less than two weeks, I’d receive my first invitations to be a fraud victim. How did this happen? The address is invisible online! There’s only one place I used it outside of a few limited correspondences: Paypal. Googling the address turns up nothing. How did they get it?

I have no time at school for any sort of baiting, much less from an email that could so easily be traced back to me, but I was curious to see if I could find a little more info on the senders.

Not really, but I did find the P-P-P-Powerbook story, and that was worth it. Those are the kind of things that become legend.

Mike

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