British man gets revenge on internet scammer by texting him 30,000 words from Shakespeare's work

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British man gets revenge on internet scammer by texting him 30,000 words from Shakespeare's work
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A British man is conducting a master class in revenge-trolling after he got ripped off by an internet seller. Twenty-four-year-old Edd Joseph was obviously mad when he paid for a PlayStation 3 console on Gumtree (the British version of Craigslist) and the seller didn't deliver. So, since he had the vendor's cellphone number, he has been bombarding it with 30,000 of Shakespeare's words via text message.

Joseph doesn't write out all of these words himself — he copies and pastes them from his browser in full. What makes the plan so mischievously annoying is that the scammer's phone, like most phones, can only receive 160-character messages at a time, thus resulting in thousands of consecutive texts.

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Jordan Valinsky is the lead writer for Speed Reads. Before joining The Week, he wrote for New York Observer's tech blog, Betabeat, and tracked the intersection between popular culture and the internet for The Daily Dot. He graduated with a degree in online journalism from Ohio University.