Mike Flacy, Digital Trends

March 19, 2014

Reported first by the Bristol Post, 24-year-old Edd Joseph of Bristol, England decided that he wanted a bit of revenge on a scammer that failed to come through with a game console purchase on a UK classified listings site called GumTree. Joseph found a listing that offered a PlayStation 3 bundle for the price of 80 British pounds (approximately $132 U.S. dollars) and paid the seller immediately. Unfortunately for Joseph, the scammer decided to keep the money and not ship Joseph the advertised PlayStation 3.

While Joseph doesn’t have to pay a dime to send the message each time, the scammer could potentially have to pay text messaging charges if they don’t have an unlimited plan. Of course, it’s also incredibly annoying to receive an endless amount of text messages, basically making the phone a paperweight until all messages have been delivered each time.

At this point, Joseph has sent 22 plays in total that amount to approximately 17,424 texts on the scammer’s phone. After sending notable works such as Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello, Joseph plans to send the remaining 17 plays in Shakespeare’s collection in the next few days. When complete, Joseph will have sent 37 text messages, but the scammer will have received nearly 30,000 messages. […continued]

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