Angry Gumtree user Conned out of £80 sends the Works of Shakespeare to fraudster via 29,000 TEXTS

Edd Joseph was furious when the PS3 console he purchased failed to arrive

Decided to get his revenge on the seller by bombarding him with messages

The 24-year-old from Bristol wanted to send as many texts as he could

Used iPhone app and 'unlimited' mobile contract to send 29,305 messages

Copied and pasted entire Shakespeare works and sent them to the conman



Revenge: Edd Joseph wanted to get back at the conman so started bombarding him with thousands of text messages containing the works of Shakespeare

An angry Gumtree user has got his revenge on an unscrupulous seller who conned him out of £80 by sending the man the entire works of William Shakespeare via 29,000 text messages.

 

Edd Joseph, a 24-year-old from Bristol, was furious when the Sony PS3 console he bought on Gumtree failed to arrive, so decided to get back at the seller by bombarding him with messages.
The graphic designer wanted to the send the conman as many texts as possible, so started by copying and pasting Macbeth into 600 messages, All's Well That Ends Well into 861, and Hamlet into an irritating 1,143.

Technique: To send the messages, Mr Joseph simply copies the entire wording of each play using a single click on an app on his iPhone, then pastes it into a text (pictured)

Mr Joseph was able to send the messages at no expense as he is on a £37-a-month unlimited contract with 02.

 

The contract allows him to make as many calls or texts as he wants without paying anything extra.

And sending the messages was not nearly as time consuming as it sounds, as Mr Joseph simply copies the entire text of each play using a single click on an app on his iPhone.

 

He then pastes the full wording into a single message, which his phone automatically breaks down into 160 word segments while sending.

Daily Mail