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Comment by samstave

13 years ago

1. Steal laptop.

2. Call victim and claim your kid bought stolen laptop for $50 and 'fessed up.

3. Claim you'd give it back for said $50

4. Profit $50.

4a. Appear innocent.

Fencing is illegal. If you have my laptop, you have to give it back to me, or you are yourself a criminal.

If, on the other hand, the scenario was real, why would I reimburse your kid's foray into stolen goods? He got the $50 in the first place, he spend them on crime, he should "do the time".

Amazingly, I think this is actually almost feasible, at least with regard to the "fencing" of the stolen product. If you only attempted to swindle $50 out of someone with this, it would very likely have a very high success rate.

Unfortunately, the economics don't work out w/respect to the risks/overhead involved in the theft of said product.