Ebay Scammer Revenge

[ieani]

This is classic. Another idiot criminal.

http://www.amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com/

[jsw]

Oh, that's excellent. I so hope that all of the seller's friends see the pics. Nice burn by the buyer.

[dornoforpyros]

haha nice, that's even better than p-p-p-p-p-powerbook

[Electro Funk]

wow... some people are amazingly stupid....

great burn... :D

[XNine]

ROFLMAO. What a stupid bastard. LOL. I think this guy is the definition of OWNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aricher]

That is awesome. I just had to forward it onto a whole group of people. This will be a worldwide burn in no time.

[iGary]

LOL - took me a minute, but brilliant.

[Dr.Gargoyle]

Amazing...Divine justice
LMAO Absolutely hillarious. I am spamming all my friends with the link as we speak.

[Koodauw]

What's even funnier is that he posts his phone number in the comments section.

[Sdashiki]

That guy is a huge jerk. And he is acting like its a huge joke?

Cmon, regardless the person got burned on the specs of the machine, but this guy is proud to have basically stolen from this guy.

I think the buyer should just blackmail him or something.

This guy needs to be gagged and like beaten.

[interlaced]

AHAHAHAH that was great! I actually didn't really even get it until the end. LOL. I'm slow! :o

[iGary]

That guy is a huge jerk. And he is acting like its a huge joke?

Cmon, regardless the person got burned on the specs of the machine, but this guy is proud to have basically stolen from this guy.

I think the buyer should just blackmail him or something.

This guy needs to be gagged and like beaten.

The guy who posted that is the guy who got ripped off. ;)

[Abulia]

That guy is a huge jerk. And he is acting like its a huge joke?

Cmon, regardless the person got burned on the specs of the machine, but this guy is proud to have basically stolen from this guy.

I think the buyer should just blackmail him or something.

This guy needs to be gagged and like beaten.
That sound that you hear is the point of the blog going right past you....

;)

[Sdashiki]

Wait.

The blog is done by the guy who knowingly sold a broken laptop.

The victim is the buyer.

Not the blogger.

What am I missing?

is the blogger sarcastically speaking like HE was the seller?

[jsw]

Wait.

The blog is done by the guy who knowingly sold a broken laptop.

The victim is the buyer.

Not the blogger.

What am I missing?The blogger is the victim, posing as the seller. That's why it's funny and not upsetting.

[Sdashiki]

Ah I sorta figured that, but its not THAT clear that I wasnt sure which way to go with it.

[SamIchi]

Owned indeed.

[ITASOR]

Wow guys, lol. The blog is done by the buyer who got ripped off, writing in first person from the point of view of the seller to make it even funnier (to us).

[iGav]

hahahahahahahahaha brilliant. :p :p :p :p :p :p

[lem0n]

he should send this website to the scammer's mother, the information is there ;) but why would someone got so obsessed with the london bombing, 9/11 and women's legs on the subway -_-

[cjc343]

Laptopguy posted somewhere else that he had sent a link to everyone in his Hotmail address book... I'm guessing he specifically sought out the guy's mom too...

[iGary]

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1548/2931/1600/Image%28508%29.jpg

Classic. I love it.

[mkrishnan]

Nice work, assuming it's not a fake.... Hehehehe, nice legs, too. :eek:

[Lau]

Absolutely brilliant. :) I can't wait to hear if there's any response from the seller or any of his friends featured in the photos...

[WildCowboy]

Absolutely brilliant. :) I can't wait to hear if there's any response from the seller or any of his friends featured in the photos...

Check the comments section of the blog...

[Atlasland]

Awesome.

[Lau]

Check the comments section of the blog...

Heh - I so rarely read blogs I totally missed the link to comments. Brilliant. :)

[adk]

I'm not so sure about owned. He did lose £375 on this after all....

[Shamus]

LOL! The scammer is getting everything he deserves, worldwide shame! Some of the comments are great too, it seems the scammer, Amir, is posing as others to try and save some face. :p

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Just too frelling good... :D :D :D
I'm not so sure about owned. He did lose £375 on this after all....Well, that's almost worth it, isn't it...? ;)

[Abstract]

I sent that piece of **** thief an email. It wasn't nice. :) I'm not sure if that was his email, though. Oh well, a nasty email is being sent around to a guy named Amir. :o

[Boggle]

I'd pay 375 to humiliate somebody who ripped me off. Especially if it was so sucessful that the con-man (just barely a man @ that) was so frustrated by the humiliation that he assumed false identities, call me a pedophile, and had his UNCLE call to threaten me all b/c the con-man couldn't take the truth.

This Amir guy is lucky this isn't all happening in the USA. The up-skirt style pics alone "could" get him a year in the poke (that's w/ plea-bargain). The altered passport certainly would have been investigated (that's can be a 25 sentence, depending what you end up doing with it). Add in the baseless pedaphile accusation, which is a crime in the USA (but tough to actualy get a conviction) and the threatening phone call from the uncle...That's conspiracy to harm (or worse depending on what was said, and if it can be proved). Best of all, the guy is caught committing mail fraud, which is what started this whole deal. This brings new meaning to the phrase "compound interest."

Amir, let me introduce you to "Tiny." You'll be making his stay here @ exciting Fort Levinworth a whole lot easier. I'll just let you boys get aquainted.

[MIDI_EVIL]

That guy is a huge jerk. And he is acting like its a huge joke?

Cmon, regardless the person got burned on the specs of the machine, but this guy is proud to have basically stolen from this guy.

I think the buyer should just blackmail him or something.

This guy needs to be gagged and like beaten.

Please don't tell me that you honestly think that?

Oh god, you completely missed the point!

The guy who created the site, was conned by the guy in the photos. This is revenge.

Rich.

[Abstract]

You'd pay £375 to humiliate someone on the internet? It's not US dollars, folks.

And I don't know how much this guy is gonna get humiliated. Even with my face and name on the net, I'm inclined to think that the internet is so big that it wouldn't bother me if I was exposed like that.

[Queso]

I'm sending it to everyone I know across London. The "six degrees of separation" thing will do the rest :)

[Boggle]

You'd pay £375 to humiliate someone on the internet? It's not US dollars, folks.

And I don't know how much this guy is gonna get humiliated. Even with my face and name on the net, I'm inclined to think that the internet is so big that it wouldn't bother me if I was exposed like that.

Yes. sorry the keyboard didn't have a pounds sterling function. but as I said. Amir is lucky it ISN'T happening in the States.

So what are you saying? If 168,000 ppl (in less than 1 month) went to a website that exposed (w/ photos) your internet porn collection (w/ interesting fetishes), the fact that you had committed mail fraud, illegally tampered with your passport, and showed that you ride "the tube" taking obscene photos of women, you wouldn't be humiliated? B/c if that's true, best get your straight jacket on, b/c you are a sociopath (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociopath). And I don't think you are @ all. I just think you're drastically under-estimating the value of public embarassment and over inflating the value of $600. You can always EARN more money, but you can never earn back your integrity; it's a 1 shot deal.

[Abstract]

168000 people in the world have seen that site, and most of them will forget his face in the matter of a second, and would never recognize his face if they saw him walking down the street, even if they remembered that website.

And I didn't say I wouldn't care. I would. I just wouldn't get too flustered about it. I would still go to buy groceries, get petrol, go to the cinema and watch a movie, etc.... I'd feel like a jerk, but I don't feel it would be effective in the way you're describing it ---- as a way to publicly embarrass someone. There's a lot of people in the world who will forget Amir's face (and maybe even his name), but remember the text on the website. There's also a lot of people in the world, period.

[Lau]

168000 people in the world have seen that site, and most of them will forget his face in the matter of a second, and would never recognize his face if they saw him walking down the street, even if they remembered that website.

Ah, that may be true, but the people that know him will see it and know about his pervy habits, and they'll also know that his pervy habits have been seen by 168000 people. :)

[mac-er]

Imagine the shock when his friend's find out Amir has a thing for guys...

[GimmeSlack12]

This is great. I've posted it on other forums for all to enjoy. (And they are!)

[PlaceofDis]

now that was a good read. :)

[Boggle]

168000 people in the world have seen that site, and most of them will forget his face in the matter of a second, and would never recognize his face if they saw him walking down the street, even if they remembered that website.

That point I concede. But part of what makes something humiliating is the fact that ppl WITNESS it. 168,000 readers and 485 posts in a month is a lot of witnesses. Most local newspapers can't come close to that. People who post stuff also tell others about the story. Not to mention it bothered Amir so much he faked an ID to respond to the site, AND GOT CAUGHT! That's pretty strong proof of the effectiveness of the technique...on Amir.

And I didn't say I wouldn't care. I would. I just wouldn't get too flustered about it. I would still go to buy groceries, get petrol, go to the cinema and watch a movie, etc.... I'd feel like a jerk, but I don't feel it would be effective in the way you're describing it

I accept that you THINK it wouldn't bother you that much. I just don't think you're really putting yourself in Amir's shoes (so to speak). Likely, I suspect you probably don't have much to be humiliated about...are you anywhere close to being the kind of person who commits mail fraud, doctors a passport, has an older relative threaten the ppl whom you've ripped off, writes up lies about ppl you've ripped off being child molesters, and takes perverted photos of women on the train with your camera-phone and keeps those pics on your computer? I just don't see you as being anything like this Amir. I certainly HOPE you're not.

But even if it wouldn't bother you "that much," you definately left out the "that much" part in your first post. But as I said, it worked enough for Amir to fake an identity, call the guy a pedaphile, and have his uncle threaten the blog creator. So I don't understand how you can make an arguement that you don't think Amir would be that humiliated. He is totally embarassed, the enormous tantrum he's throwing is the proof.

There's a lot of people in the world who will forget Amir's face (and maybe even his name), but remember the text on the website. There's also a lot of people in the world, period.

Sure, almost everybody will forget his face, but humiliation isn't permanant. Except maybe for Bill Buckner. And I doubt most ppl could pick him out of line-up.

[annk]

This was brilliant, but I would be worried if I were the buyer. I'd be looking over my shoulder all the time, in case this guy or someone he's hired, came after me.

[dogbone]

After the blog gets a million hits it will be time to readvertise the laptop with original HD on ebay. Should be worth a few grand by then.

[Chip NoVaMac]

The real Amir Massoud Tofangsazan may have problems down the road. At least here in the US there are employers and schools that regularly Google a prospective applicant to see just what sort of person they truly are.

Hope that the real Amir Massoud Tofangsazan is barely able to get a job at Boots now. :)

[Abstract]

People who post stuff also tell others about the story. Not to mention it bothered Amir so much he faked an ID to respond to the site, AND GOT CAUGHT! That's pretty strong proof of the effectiveness of the technique...on Amir.

Ah yes, but people who know him probably already know he's a scumbag. So for those who see that site and know Amir, it may not be news to them.....just a good laugh. ;)

But I think you'd be right about me being embarrassed if the hits got to around 5 million. I'd say it means that around 4 million different viewers have seen that site. At that point, I'd be afraid that people would recognise my name.


Oh, and I've emailed Amir, and I got a response. :D :eek: :cool:

[dogbone]

Oh, and I've emailed Amir, and I got a response. :D :eek: :cool:

Do tell.

[Shamus]

After the blog gets a million hits it will be time to readvertise the laptop with original HD on ebay. Should be worth a few grand by then.

Yeah excellent idea!

Some eBay big-shot like GoldenPalace.com will pay big for it, and place it in their museum of internet oddities. :)

[sinister]

My first post here and hello to all, so I thought I'd voice my opinion on the Iranian conman/boy.
Amir is Iranian, and believe me, in their culture saving face is paramount. I work with an Iranian lad and they are quite a close nit community, something like this will whip round like wild fire.I find his childish attempts at posting under pseudynoms extremely amusing though. I hope the wee git gets everything that's coming to him, swindeling little toerag.

Ah yes, but people who know him probably already know he's a scumbag. So for those who see that site and know Amir, it may not be news to them.....just a good laugh. ;)

But I think you'd be right about me being embarrassed if the hits got to around 5 million. I'd say it means that around 4 million different viewers have seen that site. At that point, I'd be afraid that people would recognise my name.


Oh, and I've emailed Amir, and I got a response. :D :eek: :cool:

[iGav]

The Police are now investigating this. :p

Rinky dink link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5030814.stm)

[panoz7]

The real Amir Massoud Tofangsazan may have problems down the road. At least here in the US there are employers and schools that regularly Google a prospective applicant to see just what sort of person they truly are.

Hope that the real Amir Massoud Tofangsazan is barely able to get a job at Boots now. :)

My thoughts exactly. This made collegehumor.com about a week ago and made me really happy. Hope he can never get a real job now.

[iGav]

Hope he can never get a real job now.

I'm wondering if it was him that contacted the police :p

[dogbone]

The Police are now investigating this. :p

Rinky dink link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5030814.stm)

The police have no choice once a legitimate complaint has been made. I like the paragraph headed "Women's Legs" ooh er, that were "apparently" taken on the London Underground. Does the bbc think that Amir mocked up a tube train? because if he didn't, then he could be in a spot of bother.

[DeSnousa]

That is the best revenge, laptopguy is going to make a fortune selling that laptop :rolleyes: That Amir guy is suspicious though, I'm glad he is being checked by the police.

[emotion]

That is the best revenge, laptopguy is going to make a fortune selling that laptop :rolleyes: That Amir guy is suspicious though, I'm glad he is being checked by the police.


Read the article. The blog is being called a "hate site" and it's laptop guy they're investigating.

[dogbone]

Read the article. The blog is being called a "hate site" and it's laptop guy they're investigating.

However Laptop guy has been careful to remove any racist comments and has in fact kept it fairly moderated. All that has happened is that Amir has made even more people aware of the blog.

[sushi]

The Police are now investigating this. :p

Rinky dink link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5030814.stm)
Deserves him right.

[dogbone]

Deserves him right.

Who, Amir or Laptopguy?

[Spanky Deluxe]

This guy will *have* to change his name. If I were an employer I would always google the persons name. I google everybody's name just to see if they've got an internet presence or whatever.

[jelloshotsrule]

This guy will *have* to change his name. If I were an employer I would always google the persons name. I google everybody's name just to see if they've got an internet presence or whatever.

good point

i just did some searching and found an blog type thing that had my name associated with it. it's gone now!! hah

[sushi]

Who, Amir or Laptopguy?
Both of them.

Amir was wrong in the first place.

The Laptopguy went over the top on exposing him.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

[yg17]

Both of them.

Amir was wrong in the first place.

The Laptopguy went over the top on exposing him.

Two wrongs don't make a right.


I dont think Laptopguy did anything wrong. He got revenge on his scammer which is what any other sane person would do. He just did it in a humerous, creative way.

[calculus]

I dont think Laptopguy did anything wrong. He got revenge on his scammer which is what any other sane person would do. He just did it in a humerous, creative way.
assuming that what laptopguy is saying is true...

[elfin buddy]

assuming that what laptopguy is saying is true...

I can't imagine how else he got all those photos unless Amir is some poor sap in laptopguy's high school who gets picked on a lot, or laptopguy swiped Amir's laptop and fabricated the whole thing for fun.

I'm honestly inclined to believe that laptopguy is telling the truth, though I'm open to persuasion if more details come to light.

[iGary]

http://www.hit-counter-download.com/cgi-bin/counter.pl?URL=www.amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com :eek:

[calculus]

At least here in the US there are employers and schools that regularly Google a prospective applicant to see just what sort of person they truly are.


Well that ought to provide accurate information:rolleyes:

[elfin buddy]

Googling for names is only remotely accurate if the person has a very uncommon name. Otherwise, they get swamped by the thousands others around the world who share the same name.

Even though I've always thought of my name as rather rare, I googled it, and it ended up being the name of a fairly big financial analysis firm. I had to refine my search drastically and dig through pages of sites before finding even one verbatim reference to me, and even those sites were just ranking sites for chess tournaments and physics competitions, haha :p :rolleyes: No dirt on me whatsoever, even though I robbed a bank last year...shhhhh!

[sushi]

I dont think Laptopguy did anything wrong. He got revenge on his scammer which is what any other sane person would do. He just did it in a humerous, creative way.
I am not faulting the laptopguy for his little revenge.

He just posted more detail than he should which is why I said that it is over the top.

Definitely a popular site. It will be interesting to see how this all works out.

[andiwm2003]

i fell sorry for Amir......no i don't!:p he's an idiot and a scammer:D

i feel a bit sorry for the other people on the pics. there was no reason to drag their pictures into this affair. their privacy is clearly violated by posting their pics without consent in this context. that's where laptopguy went over the line.:(

[Over Achiever]

I looked at the comments section ... there's some interesting points brought up as to how he accessed the HD ... and someone posted a link as to one of the pics posted (of two girls) being available online already.

Interesting read nevertheless.

[redAPPLE]

their privacy is clearly violated by posting their pics without consent in this context. that's where laptopguy went over the line.:(

is this justified? if i sue a newspaper for posting a picture of me during a rock concert and they did not try to find out who i am, i am legally able to sue them for not asking for my permission?

[Sharewaredemon]

is this justified? if i sue a newspaper for posting a picture of me during a rock concert and they did not try to find out who i am, i am legally able to sue them for not asking for my permission?

No because newspapers have the right to portray what has happened or something.

Newpapers fall within different legal stuff when it comes to pictures....

[andiwm2003]

is this justified? if i sue a newspaper for posting a picture of me during a rock concert and they did not try to find out who i am, i am legally able to sue them for not asking for my permission?

when you are not a person of outstanding importance, or when the picture was not taken in a newsworthy context or when you are not part of a crowd then they are not allowed to print your picture. at least in some countries.

taken a private picture from a private HD is clearly against the law (in some countries). anyway it's at least unfair to drag people into this and post their pic in an embarrassing context. they didn't scam the buyer.

[njmac]

After the blog gets a million hits it will be time to readvertise the laptop with original HD on ebay. Should be worth a few grand by then.

Because of the popularity of this, I think if he sold the laptop on ebay, he could command many thousands of dollars, maby even tens of thousands for it. Golden Palace would probably buy it. :cool:

[dogbone]

Because of the popularity of this, I think if he sold the laptop on ebay, he could command many thousands of dollars, maby even tens of thousands for it. Golden Palace would probably buy it. :cool:

I was reading yesterday about the New Zealand rugby captain who grabbed someones handbag to hit another patron in a bar. The handbag and broken mobile mobile in it were recently sold for $20,000 and the bar has just sold the b/w security video for $5000

[Saluki Alex]

It seems that the guy who created the site has blurred out most of the other faces on the site with the exception of Amir's.

[interlaced]

It seems that the guy who created the site has blurred out most of the other faces on the site with the exception of Amir's.

They're blurred out very poorly, I'd say.

[Saluki Alex]

They're blurred out very poorly, I'd say.

Agreed.

[dogbone]

It has made the wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Massoud_Tofangsaza