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meridiancrest

The Infamous Brick In The Box Scam

Dec 21, 2006 05:16

This is definitely immoral and illegal. I got this idea working at Circuit City when I ran in to it being performed a couple of times by apparently accomplished scam artists. This scam can be pulled off in many different ways and in many different environments. It isn't rocket science, so I'll briefly go over what I know about the infamous Brick ( Read more... )

scam, theft, brick

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I wouldn't put it past someone... anonymous December 21 2006, 10:44:20 UTC

I once bought an IBM hard drive at Best Buy and when I got home and opened the box, there was a big ROCK in there. It was almost the exact size and weight you'd expect the hard drive to be. I immediately called the store and they basically told me, "sure there's a rock in the box!"--they thought I put it there. I went right back and the manager admitted they had heard from IBM that someone in their facory in Malaysia was doing this and stealing the hard drives. Then when they got me another and I found it wasn't compatible with my computer, they really questioned me and checked the contents closely when I brought it back a second time. This was about 10 years ago...