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Hotline Hacked Vol. 12

2025/4/26
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A friend buys a PC for $300, and the narrator, using a Gmail spoof, adds outrageous fees. The prank escalates to threats involving the buyer's children and Kosovo, ending with a confession.
  • Spoofed Gmail account to add fake fees to a PC purchase.
  • Escalated the prank by adding absurd taxes and mentioning the buyer's children.
  • Threatened the buyer with actions in Kosovo.
  • Confessed the prank to the buyer.

Shownotes Transcript

A tech worker stumbles upon mass fraud and brings receipts, a flag football prank goes very right, a teenager uses Net Send and gets in trouble — but not as much as the person they're in trouble with, and a guy almost sends his pal on a "Taken" style revenge mission to Kosovo.

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