Guys Pulls Amazing Prank On Neighbor Using Their Unprotected WiFi Printer

Twitter user Blake Messick was trying to print something off recently when he noticed that his neighbor had gotten a new wireless printer and forgotten to set his password. So Messick decided to play an innocent prank on his not-so-tech-savy neighbor by convincing him that his password had become self-aware...

my neighbor just got an unsecured wireless printer, so I sent this to him pic.twitter.com/UxVdyLJTYv

— blake messick (@blakemessick) December 30, 2016

 

Apparently the prank worked so well that the neigbor decided to throw out the printer...

@blakemessick update: my neighbor has thrown out the printer pic.twitter.com/OPoAFuJjZ5

— blake messick (@blakemessick) December 31, 2016

 

And Messick decided not to let the opportunity go to waste...

@blakemessick And that's the story of how I got a free printer pic.twitter.com/DOJlS7jf39

— blake messick (@blakemessick) December 31, 2016

People were pretty impressed that this actually worked out so well...

"How do you print something on this"

"Just select it from your laptop, you just have to be near it"

? @blakemessick @Makofury

— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) January 1, 2017

 

@blakemessick EVERYTHING’S COMING UP MILHOUSE

— Lee Hutchinson (@Lee_Ars) January 1, 2017

 

@blakemessick I'm so proud of you. This is first class scamming. ??? pic.twitter.com/yCJUpHYavN

— Muhlez ? (@VWolpendz) January 1, 2017

 

@blakemessick IOW when you score "free hardware" by social engineering, you might actually have been the one who was social-engineered. :-)

— Rich Felker (@RichFelker) January 1, 2017

 

.@blakemessick funny and geeky and awesome and all that, but do give it back. Tell neighbour you exorcised it for them..?

— Ebexanna Scrooge (@planetxanna) January 1, 2017

 

@blakemessick You should tell him the truth, that it was only a joke and return him the printer, but it's up to you.

— Profesor Dennis (@DenniselAzul) January 1, 2017

 

@blakemessick the correct reaction from your neighbor should've been: pic.twitter.com/UwIcxl3CyK

— O (@OGSportBlueVIs) January 1, 2017

 

@blakemessick We could use people like you on our team !

— Skynet (@Skynet_TX) December 31, 2016

from Distractify http://distractify.com/trending/2017/01/02/twitter-printer-prank