Scammer ‘Sells’ This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

It’s been difficult to get your hands on the new PlayStation 5 since its release. So if someone really wants the console, they have to be open to all kinds of opportunities.

Which is why artist Brittany Everette pursued one that presented itself on Twitter. Or at least she thought it did.

“This guy … reached out to me saying he was selling his PS5 digital edition that his fiancé gifted him because it was the wrong version. He was selling it at the regular price too,” Everette tweeted.

The woman was skeptical at first but he seemed genuine, so she agreed to a 50% down payment and the rest 50% on arrival. And that’s when she realized she was being scammed.

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

Image credits: _BeeEv

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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The woman never had any personal interactions with scammers prior to this experience. So for someone without any “formal” training, you gotta give it to Brittany, she’s certainly quick on her feet!

“Surprisingly, the authorities haven’t responded after I reported the scam,” Brittany told Bored Panda. “The only thing I’ve received are confirmations that my reports/complaints were filed.”

She said the reaction her thread has received was overwhelmingly supportive. “I had no idea my story would reach this many people. The amount of love and positivity has been truly incredible.”

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Even though she got her money back, Brittany still doesn’t have a PS5. “I’ve tried every restock at Target, Walmart, Amazon, GameStop, Sony, and Best Buy with no luck,” she explained. “Bots buy entire stocks out within seconds then resell them for over $1,000. I really want one, but it’s starting to seem impossible (this is me asking if Sony wants to send me a PS5 digital edition).”

And she isn’t alone in this situation. Sony has created one of the hottest gadgets of recent years in the PlayStation 5, but its launch has been spoiled by scalpers who are buying up scarce supplies and threatening the long-term health of the company’s most important product.

Scalpers, who buy the PS5 at retail and then resell at a higher price, have long been a challenge in the gaming business. But the problem at this particular time is even bigger since the coronavirus has squeezed production and pushed more console sales online — where scalpers use sophisticated bots to buy up the PlayStation 5 (and the new Microsoft Xbox).

These bots constantly monitor online stores for changes in inventory and supplies, then automatically place orders and check out in seconds when the goods become available. The technique is based on familiar web-crawling or scraping technology, but specifically tailored for e-commerce and can sometimes jump to the front of order queues.

A console’s debut is planned to set off a virtuous cycle of consumers rushing to buy the devices, while developers release games that capitalize on new graphics and processor capabilities, increasing the demand on both sides.

“The PlayStation 5 could miss a critical chance to get into a good hardware-software upward spiral,” said Kazunori Ito of Morningstar Research. “The peak of the platform will likely be low and the platform’s total revenue earned won’t be as strong as we hoped for.”

As for Brittany, she isn’t ashamed she got herself into this mess and thinks other people shouldn’t be too. “At the same time, don’t let the scammers/scalpers get away with it! Hold them accountable for the terrible way they’re treating people,” she added.

People think Brittany handled the situation like a pro

Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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Scammer 'Sells' This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life

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F.S 3 years ago

"sell your bootyhole, idc"

190points

Pearl Of the SeaWing RainWings 3 years ago

That was my favorite part XD

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Milla Leino 3 years ago (edited)

Or holes, since his fiance tore him a new one 😂

8points

Renae Weidman 3 years ago

I was dead when I read that!!!!

2points

"Simo Häyhä" 3 years ago

lol

2points

Callie Dryer 3 years ago

🤣🤣🤣 I’m going to be randomly laughing about that for weeks

1point

Tiari 3 years ago (edited)

Children, please don’t imitate that one without checking your countries’ laws before. Pretending to be a lawyer can get you in serious legal trouble in several countries.

72points

WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

But I doubt if any scammer will file a complaint or report you to the police. Criminals generally aren't too keen on contacting the police.

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M O'Connell 3 years ago

In the US, even lawyers pretend to be lawyers. Have you seen the TV ads?

42points

AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

Actually that is not accurate, as long as you are not practicing law with out a license, and not impersonating an actual lawyer and not doing it to facilitate a crime, there are no laws broken.

12points

Tobin Kern 3 years ago

The FBI and PIs pretend to be other professions all the time. What is the scammer gonna do? Report her? To do so he also has to admit that he committed a crime.

5points

Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 2 years ago

In America, it won't get you in trouble in a case like this. Maybe an admonishment. But she didn't file any official documents as an attorney or any official reports, complaints, or take other legal actions usually limited to legal professionals, and she also didn't try to represent herself as an attorney for the sake of financial or other malfeasance (e.g. to con someone) so....no one would give her a second thought for how she went about it.

4points

aaron russell 3 years ago

Actually thats not true. ANYONE can act as their own lawyer. What you cant do is sell yourself as a lawyer for money. These false inaccurate beliefs is exactly how these dirtbags are successful. They prey on people not knowing what they can do. In my life experience most laws are written in favor of criminals...written to Actually make it easy for criminals to profit and virtually impossible for honest people to live.

4points

Ray Lebowski 3 years ago

So have friends who are lawyers and who are willing to be with the fake law firm. I know that doing this is not illegal, at least in my state.

2points

Jémie Culp 3 years ago

It is illegal here in the U.S. as far as I know to represent yourself as an attorney when you aren't. Legal Eagle covers this while reviewing the movie "Legally Blonde" talking about the scene where Elle represents herself as an attorney to get a friend's dog back from her ex.

2points

Stefanie Fithian 2 years ago

What’s he going to tell the police? (Scammer)“Yea so she pretended to be a lawyer to scare me” (cop) “Sir, why was she trying to scare you?” (Scammer) oh because I scammed her out of $450 prior to the email, I pretended to sell a PS5 and she sent me $450 but I never sent her anything” (cop) umm sir do you realize you just confessed to a crime? You have the right to remain silent *handcuffs click around his wrists) That’s how that would have gone down had he reported her so I’m pretty positive no scammer is going to the authorities because the victim is trying to get her money back.

1point

Christina Uhlir 3 years ago

This is another unjust, one - fits - all laws. Pretending to be a lawyer to do what??? That should be taken into consideration by lawmakers, especially if law enforcement do not respond to filled complaints - calls for justice. This is the reason why crooks, scammers, liars are kept in business. It doesn't take a genius to correct this problem, if only people we (voters) put in power did their job. Think before you vote.

0points

imagae 3 years ago

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Tantalum_Radium 3 years ago

Fake or not, I hope it’s scares dirty low-life scammers!

60points

Luke Oakridge 3 years ago

I don't know how she was able to know that the new twitter handles were for the same individual. Also, how did she find the e-mails of his fiance? This kind of information doesn't seem like something you could get from a simple internet search.

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Ellie Rosser 3 years ago

Work out his name because all of his twitter handles are variations on a theme.Also, presumably she had some details for where she sent the money. Once you know his full name then paying for a background check on a zillion online sites will also give you emails and phone numbers of people who live at the same address or are related.

10points

John Baker 3 years ago

I confess I'm a bit skeptical of this story. It's amusing, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it being true.

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F.S 3 years ago

"sell your bootyhole, idc"

190points

Pearl Of the SeaWing RainWings 3 years ago

That was my favorite part XD

46points

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Milla Leino 3 years ago (edited)

Or holes, since his fiance tore him a new one 😂

8points

Renae Weidman 3 years ago

I was dead when I read that!!!!

2points

"Simo Häyhä" 3 years ago

lol

2points

Callie Dryer 3 years ago

🤣🤣🤣 I’m going to be randomly laughing about that for weeks

1point

Tiari 3 years ago (edited)

Children, please don’t imitate that one without checking your countries’ laws before. Pretending to be a lawyer can get you in serious legal trouble in several countries.

72points

WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

But I doubt if any scammer will file a complaint or report you to the police. Criminals generally aren't too keen on contacting the police.

147points

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M O'Connell 3 years ago

In the US, even lawyers pretend to be lawyers. Have you seen the TV ads?

42points

AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

Actually that is not accurate, as long as you are not practicing law with out a license, and not impersonating an actual lawyer and not doing it to facilitate a crime, there are no laws broken.

12points

Tobin Kern 3 years ago

The FBI and PIs pretend to be other professions all the time. What is the scammer gonna do? Report her? To do so he also has to admit that he committed a crime.

5points