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ID10T error

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:42 pm
by Red Squirrel
IDIOT! If you steal a laptop, at least format the drive, or something, and DONT call tech support! :lol:



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171617,00.html

It had to be the dumbest customer-service call ever.

Lancaster County (search), Neb., sheriff's deputies say a man couldn't get a stolen laptop computer to work — so he called the manufacturer's toll-free tech-support number for help.

The IBM ThinkPad was reported missing after a rural home burglary Sept. 13, but there were few leads until IBM called, reports the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal-Star.

It turned out someone who wasn't the registered owner had failed in booting up the machine and called IBM's customer-service line, which still handles the calls although IBM sold its personal-computer division to China's Lenovo earlier this year.

When the caller gave the machine's serial number, support personnel realized it had been stolen and notified the authorities.

On Sept. 29, deputies executing a search warrant on a Lincoln home found both the ThinkPad and a pistol that had been stolen in Omaha in 1989.

They arrested Darrell Brown, 48, on suspicion of possessing stolen property.

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ID10T error

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:46 pm
by upload420
yeah that is a pretty stupid thing to do rob something and then call in to get help on how to use it. I just wonder if what the guy said to the CS people. Wish i could hear that conversation


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ID10T error

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:48 pm
by Red Squirrel
Yeah that would be great to hear.

"I just stole this laptop, the serial number is [...] and I can't seem to guess the administrator password, could you walk me through the steps of cracking it? It also has this weird cisco VPN client which looks like a log in to another network how can I crack that as well?"

:lol:

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ID10T error

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:53 pm
by upload420
then the guy was probaly like

is the warrenty still good on this baby cause i put some hard work into stealing this suckers so i want to know that i won't have to pay for anything that goes wrong with it.

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