Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Note To Criminals — Don't Call Tech Support

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 23, @04:56PM
from the caught-short dept.
It's funny. Laugh.
Billosaur writes "Darwin Awards, here he comes: Ars Technica has up a story about a would-be identity thief who did himself in by calling tech support about printer drivers. Timothy Short must have thought he'd hit the mother-lode when he stole a PC and a Digimarc printer from the Missouri Department of Revenue, perhaps with dreams of cranking out thousands of fake ids. Problem: he could not unlock the computer he stole and without the necessary drivers, he couldn't use the printer. Ever resourceful, Short called Digimarc tech support a couple of days later (twice), which brought him to the attention of a Secret Service agent, who recognized his voice from a recording of the calls. Short now faces a $250,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison."
[+] crime, !darwinawardunlesshedies, humor, identitytheft, haha (tagging beta)

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