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Scams and tricks that shouldnt have worked but did

  • 18-08-2013 09:32PM
    #1
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    These guys called up a KFC and told the women working there that 'hazard chemicals' were in their restaurant and tricked them into stripping naked and peeing on each other to 'neutralise' the threat.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranknet

    What other scams and tricks are there that shouldnt have worked but did?


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  • #2
    IrishStuff09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 815 ✭✭✭IrishStuff09


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    These guys called up a KFC and told the women working there that 'hazard chemicals' were in their restaurant and tricked them into stripping naked and peeing on each other to 'neutralise' the threat.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranknet
    After Hours.


    That is all.


  • #3
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Eircom shares.

    :D


  • #4
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    These guys called up a KFC and told the women working there that 'hazard chemicals' were in their restaurant and tricked them into stripping naked and peeing on each other to 'neutralise' the threat.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranknet

    Labour and FG scammed half the electorate of the country.


  • #5
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,762 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    endacl wrote: »
    Eircom shares.

    :D

    I made 900 quid on Eircom shares.
    I was a total sucker, eh? :o


  • #6
    Fresh Pots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭Fresh Pots


    Arthur's day


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  • #7
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    These guys called up a KFC and told the women working there that 'hazard chemicals' were in their restaurant and tricked them into stripping naked and peeing on each other to 'neutralise' the threat.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranknet

    Just read through that wiki article and those guys should be boiled alive in vats of their own piss.


  • #8
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Mr E wrote: »
    I made 900 quid on Eircom shares.
    I was a total sucker, eh? :o
    Nah. You were one of the smart ones. :p


  • #9
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭hfallada


    Telling Irish people that property prices can only go up. And that if they fall we are in for a soft landing.


  • #10
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    'Hey girls, I've a snake in my pants. Wanna touch?'


  • #11
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    'Hey girls, I've a snake in my pants. Wanna touch?'

    They found out it was more worm then snake?


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  • #12
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    This one didnt get that much tabloid inches at the time but it's hard to believe there are people that stupid and gullible.

    American woman bringing the last 90000 installment of a million was intercepted by FBI and gardai handing it over to a conman in Burlington hotel.
    It was the old Nigerian black money scam and the victims didnt have clue until the FBI intervened. The gullible 30 person American syndicate lost 900,000.


  • #13
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    "We have decided to scrap the Eiffel tower and are inviting bids from demolition companies".

    Shouldn't have worked, but it did.


  • #14
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    wil wrote: »
    This one didnt get that much tabloid inches at the time but it's hard to believe there are people that stupid and gullible.

    American woman bringing the last 90000 installment of a million was intercepted by FBI and gardai handing it over to a conman in Burlington hotel.
    It was the old Nigerian black money scam and the victims didnt have clue until the FBI intervened. The gullible 30 person American syndicate lost 900,000.
    Heh. Wille McGee. Heh.


  • #15
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    The Gathering


    Did that work?


  • #16
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    The Gathering


    Did that work?
    Undecided.


  • #17
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    Undecided.
    They'll be here any minute now...


  • #18
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    endacl wrote: »
    They'll be here any minute now...

    And then we hold any Irish diaspora who arrive here upside down in an effort to get the loose change out?


  • #19
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    wazky wrote: »
    And then we hold any Irish diaspora who arrive here upside down in an effort to get the loose change out?
    Yep. We call it 'Kissing the Blarney Stone'.

    Tried and tested for years now.


  • #20
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    The Gathering


    Did that work?

    Ask Conor McLeod


  • #21
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Ask Conor McLeod
    A whole lot of fuss, and in the end he was the only one there...


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  • #22
    Elbaston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Elbaston


    In February 2009, "Dex" called a KFC restaurant in Manchester, New Hampshire. Posing as a manager from the corporate office, he persuaded employees to douse the building with fire suppression chemicals and to then proceed outside, remove all of their clothing and urinate on each other (he claimed the chemicals were caustic and this would render them inert).[10] When "Dex" posted the audio to YouTube he described it as "Epic KFC Prank Call (greatest ever)...dex successfully convinces the 3 female employees to undress fully nude outside and urinate on each other." Many months later "Dex", posing this time as an insurance adjuster called the same KFC and had the victims describe their experiences while Pranknet members listened.


    The blessed one lives.


    "dex successfully convinces the 3 female employees to undress fully nude outside and urinate on each other"



    "dex successfully convinces the 3 female employees to undress fully nude outside and urinate on each other"



    "dex successfully convinces the 3 female employees to undress fully nude outside and urinate on each other"


    just...... im gonna... oh god


  • #23
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    To save people searchin'....



  • #24
    Outkast_IRE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,511 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    There was a mad pyramid scheme in cork a few years ago.
    Im not messing when I say a lot of people I worked with were stupid enough to pay into it.

    I was working on sites at the time and there was people organising meetings in their homes giving people info on how to get into it. There was a lot of bad blood around when the whole thing fell through.

    But it was just ridiculous the amount of people that got stung for €1000+ minimum


  • #25
    SeaDaily
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 613 ✭✭✭SeaDaily


    SamHall wrote: »
    Labour and FG scammed half the electorate of the country.

    Classic not funny cynic taking every thread as an oppurtunity to moan about the government..


  • #26
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,998 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Wikipedia wrote:
    Pranknet members frequently place Craigslist ads offering free tickets or items. Inquirers are bombarded with obscene sexual rants and racial epithets. A 12-year old girl called about a free trampoline, and Malik told her not to get pregnant by a black man because "they have AIDS". Markle frequently calls women who are selling household items on the site. After getting the victim’s home address, he then tells her he is on his way over to rape her and kill her children.
    ................
    James Markle, one of the group's most prolific callers. Markle was already a person of interest in a Lufkin Police investigation involving a phone call to a local McDonald's,[21] and was arrested for this subsequently.[22] The Smoking Gun had based the claim upon information from old MySpace and Facebook pages, and people from the area who identified Markle in photos.[23] The Smoking Gun also published official documents showing that Markle pled guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child in 2005, serving two years in a juvenile detention facility for raping a 5-year-old girl and then threatening to kill her if she told anyone about the incident.

    Just some harmless fun :eek:.


  • #27
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    SamHall wrote: »
    Labour and FG scammed half the electorate of the country.


    Whereas Fianna Fail f*cked 100% of them in the asshole


  • #28
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Lol :)
    Keep 'em coming!


  • #29
    Mr. G
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. G


    The microsoft scams, they've been going on for a couple of years now trying to get remote access through teamviewer. Its all over YouTube. Here's a thread on it:

    http://m.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=84489002


  • #30
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,944 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Scientology


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  • #31
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


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