Man Gets Revenge on Scammer by Texting Him Complete Works of Shakespeare

“If it will feed nothing else,” Shylock says in The Merchant of Venice, “it will feed my revenge.”

That’s one of the many lines a British internet seller gets to read after he allegedly sold to a Bristol computer programmer a PS3 and never delivered it.

The buyer, 24-year-old Edd Joseph, who’d already paid via direct bank transfer, was livid — until he learned he could copy and paste text from the internet onto his phone, which has an unlimited texting plan. All Joseph has to do is hit “send” once and his phone divides the text into 160-character bites and blasts them one-by-one to his adversary.

Thus began the scammer’s education in the works of the Bard:

So far Edd has sent 22 plays including Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello which have been delivered in 17,424 texts.

He reckons the remaining 15 works will take another few days to send – meaning his adversary’s phone will have been constantly beeping for nearly a week.

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The total should reach almost 30,000 texts.

“I tried to ask him if he was enjoying the plays, but he was very confused,” Edd said. “I’m going to keep doing it. If nothing else I’m sharing a little bit of culture with someone who probably doesn’t have much experience of it.”

[h/t Melville House / Bristol Post]

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