For whatever reason, Apple's iPod
ends up in the middle of quite a few crimes. The latest story, however, is even more extreme than usual. Nicholas Arthur Woodhams, a 23 year old from Kalamazoo, Michigan, was recently slapped upside the gord with federal charges of fraud and money laundering after he managed to con Apple into shipping him around 9,000
iPod shuffles. As the story goes, he managed to somehow correctly guess thousands of valid shuffle serial numbers and have replacements shipped to him; once they arrived, he sold them for less than MSRP to excited buyers, all while giving Apple a prepaid VISA number that would reject the charges after he failed to send back the nonexistent "original" shuffle. It's rather amazing to us that he was able to pull this off for so long without being noticed, but even if it works for awhile, we've learned yet again that crime doesn't pay. In fact, the feds have already seized a half million bucks from one brokerage account, some real estate and a trio of vehicles. Tragic, yeah?
[Via
Macworld, thanks Steve]
posted March 22nd 2009 3:36AM
A B C D E F G H "i" got an iPod in Kalamazoo!
Don’t want to boast but I know its the toast of Kalamazoo
(Zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo)
You'd think they'd have wised up after the first 8000 or so. :P
Your comment is strange to me. I'm just a simple caveman.
LOL apple got pwnt!
And crime DOES pay, you just don't hear about it
it seems like i've seen 9000 apple stories on engadget lately!
Over 9000?!
Primus FTW!! Great, now that song is stuck in my head.
at least apple doesnt have to worry about the new shuffle being stolen.
no one in there right mind would want one.
If he goes to Western Michigan University, I think I've seen that guy before on campus.
Of course they wouldntve caught it! THey cant count past the amount on the fingers since their lack of numerical pads.
You'd think the guy would have gotten an offshore account, like all the bank execs.
@neal.lucas
"at least apple doesnt have to worry about the new shuffle being stolen.
no one in there right mind would want one."
That is why I carry my shuffle when I am out of home. :)
Anyone else baffled as to how the original post was submitted two days before the article was published. o.0
"iGoon#2 @ Mar 20th 2009 10:48PM"
"I'VE GOT A GAL IN KALAMAZOO
(Mack Gordon / Harry Warren)
Glenn Miller - 1942
Also recorded by: The Andrews Sisters; Lous Armstrong; BBC Big Band;
Tex Beneke; Big Band; Boston Pops Orch.; Tony Orchestra Burgos;
Chas & Dave; The Clark Sisters; Xavier Cugat; Graham Dalby;
DMP Big Band; Tommy Dorsey & His Orch.; Billy Eckstine;
Benny Goodman & His Orch.; Ondrej Havelka; Dick Haymes; Ted Heath;
Hollywood All Stars; Marion Hutton; Johnny Keating; The King Sisters;
Steve Lawrence; Art Lund; Garrett Miller; ..... and many others.
(lengthy instrumental interlude)
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H
I got a gal in Kalamazoo
Don’t want to boast but I know she’s the toast of Kalamazoo
(Zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo)"
http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/i/ivegotagalinkalamazoo.shtml
ok, but whats with the Juicy Fruit? that shit is nasty anyways
if he had anything to do with that string of terribly bad / funny guitar smashing commercials, then he's gonna get what's coming to him
juicy fruit has a chip inside the gum that makes it taste horrible.
Only because you're not "made for Juicy Fruit".
What kind of shitty taste buds you got? JF is fuckin' good as hell.
This reminds me of "Juicy" by B.I.G now, lol.
Which samples Mtume - Juicy Fruit from 1983...
god damn the mid west is so goofy
His punishment would be to listen to Ballmer's speeches for 9,000 hours straight.
Haha oh god I'd kill ballmer then myself
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS YAAA!
Or be forced to use a Zune
Ha ha ha.
Some people get all the luck, until they're caught out.
What's most amazing to me is that he had any money left in his brokerage account!
Mmm all the glorious proprietary headphones one could ask for.
More Gimme MORE Apple news Engadget, whats wrong with your lack of apple news lately
why does Engadget never report on Apple stuff? totally starved of Apple news
WHAT, 9,000?!?
OVER 9,000!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!
DAMNIT NICK u seriously beat me by like 20 secs.
"DAMNIT NICK u seriously beat me by like 20 secs."
ooo damit nick, chase me, ive got some toffee's
THERE'S NO WAY THAT CAN BE RIGHT, CAN IT??!
I did the math, how could 9,000 shuffles at a marked down from MSRP turn into $500,000 in a brokerage account, some real estate and a trio of vehicles?
math is never the strong suit of those filing suit.
lawl i just thought the same thing, he must have been doing some other dodgy shit then...
Sony just called they want to talk to this bastard about their Q4 loss.
Lets see:
MSRP of 1 Ipod shuffle=$79?
Marked down $20 off each: $79-$20=$59
9000x$59=$531,000
$531,000
=500,000+ stuff?
Beside, 9000 units could rounded up by, taking anything between 8500-9499 actual units.
@coolant
3 vehicles AND real estate for 30 grand? then it would have to be land in the middle of nowhere and some pretty shitty cars lol
Who said it was all paid off. 30,000 could get you 3 cars and a house...
And some monthly payments.
@cal well it IS Kalamazoo Michigan...
Over 9000!!!!!!!!
Lol, I feel sorry for CL. The first few were high ranked, and I guess you had the bad luck of the joke getting old haha.
Tragic? No This is pure magic and genius! He seems to enjoy doing biz with anything that has a fruit logo on it...preferably the apple kinds... :D
If he survives this, the kid will grow up to be a Wallstreet banker.
Wall Street Banker nothing...try our next president...at the very least, he should run for congress.
grow up? hes 23 lol. he already grown.
Because there are no shortages of dumbs$$e$ to vote fir him, much less suggest it or condone stealing.... Lazy ass should rot in jail...