Joey’s blog is carrying the story of how he and his roommates (including an infosec guru who shoulda known better!) got roocked twice by a conman who knocked on their door. Funny stuff, with an object lesson thrown in.

Dan and I each gave him forty bucks, and he gave us his phone number and even offered to let us hang on to a Macintosh computer as a guarantee that he would come back and pay. I felt a little guilty about not getting to know all my neighbours and told him it would be all right — the phone number would be sufficient. It was only after he left that I got the sinking we got rooked.

Dan said that he got the feeling too, but he kept mum and watched for me to make my move — when he saw me lend him the money, he did the same.

He never came back. Dan went on at length about how he’d “fucking kill” Sean if he ever dared to show his face in the neighbourhood again.

Here’s Joey’s story: Link, and here’s the mea culpa from the aforementioned infosec guru: Link Discuss (Thanks, Joey!)