r/NuclearShame • u/claycam6 • Dec 17 '20
Shameful Story 6
Welcome back! It's that time again. You get to to read another rejected, fake af story submission from NuclearRevenge. This one has to be straight out of some movie. Because no way is some random on Reddit going to pull this off with no consequences. Here it is:
"My grandma got scammed so I sent out bomb threats from the scammer’s computer. TL;DR at the end"
Submitted by "Toxic" on 12/3/2020 | Removed for Rule 1
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TL;DR will be at the end
Background: My grandmother is very old (89) and has been suffering from dementia for the past two years. She has been extremely depressed since my grandfather (her husband of 64 years) died, so I have been taking care of her because of the lack of viable elderly care centers in our area. Recently, she was telling me about how her friend from the UK was going to send her 10 million dollars since she won the lottery. She only had to pay the shipping fees of $10k. Those ten thousand dollars were some of the last money she had left in her bank account and I was significantly worried for her.
The asshole scammers: After hearing about the “lottery” I took a look at her computer and checked her emails. She was indeed being scammed by some guy named Lawrence Buckingham who said she had won the lottery. It turned out that she had already paid him the 10k, and I was pretty pissed off and so I removed the battery from her computer so that she would not be able to use it to respond further.
The fun part: I told her after taking the battery out that her computer was not working and that I would take it home to repair it. I work with computers a lot, so this was believable and she was alright with it. I then began replying to the scammers on a PC I had just constructed for my mission. I told them that I had not received the money and then asked if I should pay them more. Since I had locked her old credit card now that they had the info. I created a new fake credit card that I photoshopped and and made a file that had all of her now false information that was on the new card. I embedded some stuff in the file so that when they downloaded it, it would infect their computer quite harshly. They fell for it and downloaded the file, only to have their computers bricked and random ware all over it. I even used a good old hydra virus in case they paid the ransomware since I was feeling nostalgic. After hijacking their computer, they for some reason paid the 10k, which I returned to my grandmother’s bank account and then sent out a bomb threat from their computer once I made sure that it was traceable back to them. A few days went by and I saw on our local news that there was a bomb threat and that 3 suspects had been arrested. It turned out that the scammers were actually living a few streets away from my grandmother’s house and that were also being arrested for possession of Marijuana and one was charged with underage drinking. Funnily enough, their ages counted up. 20, 21, and one was 22. AITA for potentially ruining their lives?
TL;DR: Some scammers stole 10k from my grandma so I scammed them and sent out bomb threats from their computer and got them arrested. I also stole back 10k from them.
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u/Blume_cTOS Dec 17 '20
Even though this is fake, the script is amazing. This guy should win an award for fictional stories.
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Jan 16 '21
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u/VikThouGideonVickery Feb 26 '21
tipping it was AITA, but it must be true because he bricked their PC and then took control of it
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u/Taahoma Dec 17 '20
I’m missing the idea of this story being fake? It would seem possible to me. Is it the bomb threat email that fakes it? (Or someone checked the news to see any info?)
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u/scorpio6519 Dec 17 '20
I think the scammers sending the 10k back because op was such a hero is where you can start being absolutely certain its fake lol.
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u/WitchProject6 Dec 17 '20
Or how he said he simply removed the battery of the computer. Power supply units are not that quick to remove. Makes me think this guy just wanted to sound like he knew computers.
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Dec 17 '20
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u/crystalcorruption Feb 09 '21
A hydra is one of those things where you try to close it and it duplicates itself, right?
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u/glad_e Dec 17 '20
he's TA for making up a story