True Stories of People Who Pulled Off Successful Long Cons

Call the Internet Police!

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I had a roommate in sophomore year of college that was a computer science major. He had a girlfriend that was more or less technologically illiterate.

I jokingly ask him one day when his girlfriend was hanging out in our room why he didn’t join the “Internet Police”. He quickly picked up on the joke, and listed off a few reasons, like not really getting to create code or websites, blah blah blah. But his girlfriend believed every word that either of us said when it came to technology.

This led to small detail and fake story drops whenever she was around. “Hey did you hear about the Internet Police taking down a torrent site?” “So-and-so dropped out, apparently he’s just going to join the Internet Police.” We kept this going for months, and it all culminated in one glorious moment late in the spring.

She, trying to show off to her girl friends, was talking all about how her boyfriend had gotten accepted into the Internet Police, but turned it down. This led to a whole argument between the girls on whether or not the Internet Police existed.

She tried calling me and roommate in for backup, but we were far too busy dying of laughter to help her. Needless to say, she finally figured it out, and never trusted us again when it came to the internet. Story credit: Reddit / DopiestScooter

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