Naive hacker tries to scam a chat app user. Watch this dude’s hilarious response

What happens when your friend’s chat app account gets hacked, and the scammer tries to cheat you of your money? For most of us, we’d either ignore or block the person. Not this dude.

Jonathan Wong, a search ad evangelist at Microsoft, received a curious message on chat app Line from a scammer pretending to be his friend. He asked Wong to buy a few iTunes cards from a 7-11 convenience store.

Wong was tickled by this, and decided to engage him in a conversation. What’s funny is how far the hacker went to pretend he’s a friend. Here’s how it went down:

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Update at 9.40pm Singapore time:

Boy, things got serious quickly. Turns out scammers have been targeting quite a number of Line users in Japan and elsewhere of late, as this, this, and this report show (Google Translate needed for some of these articles).