Citizens, we bring you our new idol. A man says a scammer asked him to ship a camera he posted for sale to Nigeria, and he responded by sending him actual poop in the mail. Here's what happened:
"I listed my camera on KSL Classifieds and within a couple minutes, I had this guy with broken English texting me saying that he wanted to buy my camera as a wedding gift for his fiancee so she could finish her church freedom mission," Ben Taylor says.
The buyer went by the name Joe Williams and offered the man selling the camera, Ben Taylor, $150 more than his original asking price. A little fishy.
"He tells me that he sent money to my PayPal account and sure enough I get this email from Service@paypal.com," he says.
But the email address wasn't actually associated with PayPal. Taylor had had enough — so he decided to troll the would-be scammer right back.
Taylor found a website that lets you ship poop anywhere in the world for just 20 bucks. We checked it out, it's real. And that scammer in Nigeria has a package coming his way.
"I just got a confirmation that the poop will arrive in 5-7 days. I also got a tracking number that I'm going to give to him so he can anxiously watch his little pile of crap make its way all the way to Nigeria," he says.
This man is a hero. And, you can even track where the poo is. The tracking website hasn't been updated in a few days, but the special delivery is due around Friday or within the next few days after that.
We're envisioning the excrement express will go a little something like this:
"Here you go, Mr. Burgundy, the chef made a special for you."
Taylor told us on the phone he found this specialty website by Googling "sending poop to people." Simple. And effective. He also says he did eventually sell his camera to a real person for real money. All's well that ends well.
