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The Broken Laptop I Sold on Ebay - Amir Tofangsazan

So a week or so ago I read about this funny story, another conman on Ebay, but this time with a twist.

The conman got screwed.

The buyer recovered the hard drive from the malfunctioning notebook, finding it full of personal details, allegedly including access to email accounts, 90 voyeuristic leg shots taken on the London Underground and gay porn. He posted the material on a website, naming and shaming Barnet 19-year-old Amir Tofangsazan as the seller.

Amir

Basically this Amir guy put up for auction is a refurbished HP laptop with a 2.8 GHz P4 with two gigs of ram, a 15" screen and a DVD+/-RW. Ironically enough, the HD capacity is not listed.

Of note here is the fact that the auction was sniped 20 seconds before ending for GBP$350 (roughly US$660), quite a deal on the laptop that was listed.

After that the buyer received the laptop, well he received A laptop, not particularly the one he bought..

Rather than having 2Gb of RAM, it only had 512Mb. It also didnt have a DVD-RW as described. Perhaps most importantly of all, the laptop didn't actually work

After that the buyer was pissed obviously, and the guy wouldn't give him a refund, so he extracted the HDD (which still worked) and pulled the data off it..

He posted what he found on blogspot here..

Suffice to say, hundreds of pictures of ladies legs taken on the underground, half naked pictures of himself and a bunch of weird fetish stuff plus his CV and a some other personal stuff.

Amir Owned

New pics here.

More of the latest stuff and a load of photoshops here.

Lesson? Don't fuck around on Ebay, and always wipe your HDD PROPERLY before selling it or anything containing a HDD.

Read more:

Slashdot
The Register
The Broken Laptop I Sold on Ebay
Amir Massoud Tofangsazan: The blog continues
Daily Mail - UK

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18 Comments so far

  1. CypherHackz  on June 14th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 on Windows Windows XP 

    Ha3. Lol...
    Thats why don't make some mad or you will get mad.

  2. Chris Chong  on June 14th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 on Mac OS Mac OS X 

    Holy cow...! What a dumbass!!!

  3. spiller  on June 14th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
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    OMG, foot porn? Damn sicko.

    Haha, David James. Blardy wanker.

  4. gouki  on June 14th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows Windows XP 

    How to wipe out your HDD?

    http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

    A good piece of software.

  5. gbyeow  on June 14th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 on Windows Windows 2000 

    Pwnd! Haha. Should always zero out hard disks... Thrice.

  6. Adam  on June 14th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
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    Serves that A@#$%^&* right. BTW, good advice.

  7. Dabido (Teflon)  on June 14th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows Windows XP 

    The slashdot article was interesting, as the broken laptop wasn't the first 'broken' thing he'd sold on e-bay!

    I think he deserves what he got! :-)

  8. Terry  on June 14th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
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    hahahhahahahah.....is just really funnny....

  9. Sharon  on June 14th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
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    K A R M A :)

  10. eddyhan  on June 14th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
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    I've heard about this 3 weeks back actually.

    But it's impressive how the one who got conned, made a come back like that.

  11. KY  on June 14th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
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    saw this a while back, hillarous shit.

  12. foodcrazee  on June 14th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
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    lolz....fuc*er deserved that

  13. kamkuey  on June 14th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
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    Dem!! What a booboo he made. AHAHA..

  14. jack0  on June 15th, 2006 at 3:04 am
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 on Windows Windows Vista 

    buahahahahahahaaa..
    dai~sei

    now to wipe me ass.. i mean HDD clean :p

  15. mob1900  on June 15th, 2006 at 5:15 am
    Using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Windows XP 

    His porn iz nowhere near my MINE!

  16. Ed_Lim  on June 15th, 2006 at 11:46 am
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    OWNED. SO OWNED.... bwahahahahaha.

  17. Hijackqueen  on June 15th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
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    Serve him right. That is a heavy punishment he should pay.

  18. Matthew  on June 15th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
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    pity him though...poor fella, grow up!

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