[Engadget] Scammer shuffles Apple out of 9,000 iPods

[TheMarchingMule]

Scammer shuffles Apple out of 9,000 iPods

Hard to say who got owned the most here!

 

[Nocturnal310]

he should have taken some tips from Danny ocean on exit strategy .. closing the job is most important.

ROFL ..read the comments on that page:
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zfurie @ Mar 22nd 2009 3:44AM His punishment would be to listen to Ballmer's speeches for 9,000 hours straight.

 

[obobskivich]

ebay is a fun place, isn't it?

 

[krmathis]

Scammers are bad!
But how Apple allowed this to happen is beyond me...

 

[obobskivich]

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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Scammers are bad! But how Apple allowed this to happen is beyond me...

social engineering, its fast and its free, and it surely must work, just look at thee! (if you know what song I'm paraphrasing, I'll seriously sig you, no cheating though)

 

[Fitz]

Insert obligatory "over 9000" joke here.

 

[Ishcabible]

I don't quite understand how Apple would be smart enough ship out 9000 replacement Shuffles at one time, especially since it was released this month. That might allude to poor reliability with the Shuffles.

 

[wuwhere]

Hope they let him keep an iPod shuffle while doing time in a Federal prison for souvenir.

 

[mrarroyo]

All that money and he stayed in the country! I mean once he got all that money why did he stay in the country? He could have gone to a country w/o extradition.

 

[cash68]

It didn't say what generation iPod shuffle, it looks to be the old kind from the pic, IDK though.

 

[Uncle Erik]

Sounds like he had been using the con for some time. He got lazy or greedy or both. You can't take that much without an auditor eventually catching on.

 

[apatN]

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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Scammers are bad! But how Apple allowed this to happen is beyond me...

They probably believe the hype. Keeping their eyes closed.

 

[Currawong]

I don't think he did it at one time, but would have done it over a period of time. Because the shuffles are cheapest and sold in the millions, it would have taken someone seeing a weird pattern to figure out that something odd was going on.

 

[Suntory_Times]

Yes, but 9000 is alot, and an internal auditor at apple should have picked up on this a lot quicker (I'm only assuming apple has internal auditors, but honestly have no idea, if they don't this proves they need one, and if they do, this proves they need to get more competent ones).

 

[setmenu]

They work very hard at keeping the brand on top.
I have lost count of the number of Ipod type 'stories' i have seen in the press over the years..