15 Sep Scammer Tries To Steal Journalist’s Identity Then Gets Trolled In The Most Incredible Way

When I was younger, my parents refused to let me use the internet because they were frighted I’d fall prey to a scammer. Back in the internet’s infancy, a lot of scams involved pop-ups that proudly declared you had won a large amount of cash for doing absolutely nothing.

However, thanks to ad blockers, the vast majority of scams that we encounter online these days come in the form of emails. They range from pharmaceutical companies trying to sell you viagra or random people on the other side of the world trying to steal your identity. Which, is exactly what happened to this journalist…

I’ve had the same email account for almost a decade, and I have to empty my spam folder on a daily basis. Contrary to what my parents thought when I was 13, scammers are ridiculously easy to spot if you’re Internet savvy, and little about their emails is convincing…

When American politician journalist Josh Billinson received an email from a scammer trying to steal his identity, he decided to troll them in the most epic way possible…

The scammer requested a picture of Billinson’s passport. But, no fool, the journalist chose to respond with one of the most iconic passport pages of all time – that of the fictional assassin extraordinaire, Jason Bourne. What happened next not only won the Internet…

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