Prankster Goes All Out With Hilarious Plan To Waste Scammer's Time

Published October 14, 2021

Scam callers are always annoying, but they can pretty much drive you crazy if they keep calling long after you've made it clear that you aren't falling for it.

And unless four different people running the exact same scam called me the other day, I'm pretty sure that happened to me. So as you might expect, I'm kind of in the mood to see someone frustrate them for once.

Fortunately, it seems the internet is full of creative and clever folks who delight in scaring them off and wasting their time.

And as we're about to see, it's probably safe to say that the best way to get a scammer to stop contacting you is to put them through an hour-long saga.

On October 13, Imgur user chillirobot posted a series of screenshots detailing their conversations with one determined fraudster.

Imgur | chillirobot

As we can see, this person came in hot with some big promises that chillirobot was soon about to receive a BMW and $3.4 million for no apparent reason.

Obviously, they didn't buy this for a second and when the scammer asked for their address, they said it was 10 Downing Street in London, England.

In case you didn't know, that's where the Prime Minister of the U.K. lives.

After chillirobot somehow convinced the scammer that the U.K. doesn't issue ID cards, they were asked to provide a picture of themselves.

Imgur | chillirobot

In their words, "That's obviously not a picture of me btw. But he liked it!"

With all of these pleasantries out of the way, the scammer got down to brass tacks. In order to deliver their generous package, they would need a "small" payment first.

Here we go!

At first, this person wanted $300, but our friend was pretty insistent on their counter-offer.

Imgur | chillirobot

Indeed, that $300 price tag never comes up again. So either the scammer really loves cake or it was such a weird offer to them that they forgot what they asked for.

Because when they requested a Google Play gift card, it seems that they were suddenly satisfied with one valued at £10, the equivalent of $13.

But of course, chillirobot had no intention of giving them that either.

Imgur | chillirobot

And when the scammer pressed them about the gift card, they were told that the store only had a £5 one and that they wouldn't be able to restock for a week.

When the scammer advised buying one online instead, chillirobot said they didn't have an internet connection.

As they put it, "Surely the claim that I don't have the internet should be a red flag for him?"

But as we'll see, that apparently wasn't the case.

And while the scammer tried to up the price to £25, they were stuck playing along when chillirobot send over the information for the £5 one.

Imgur | chillirobot

But as we can see here, the code had already been redeemed.

Funnily enough, chillirobot actually foreshadowed this when they said they used the card to buy credit for the mobile game Candy Crush, but it seems the scammer didn't notice in all the commotion.

And since that "OK thank" was the last message the scammer sent, they ended up spending an hour and a half having this conversation only to walk away empty-handed.

You love to see it.

h/t: Imgur | chillirobot

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