Selling Empty Boxes

Patrick Brethour of the Globe&Mail reports on a scam artist selling "$2000 notebook computers" for a couple of hundred dollars:

A routine parking violation has unearthed one of the most bizarre scams that the North Vancouver RCMP has seen: cardboard boxes stuffed with newspaper flyers being sold as cut-rate computer laptops.

Read the rest of the story here.

I once purchased an empty box from FutureShop. It was a network card or something like that. When I got it home, I opened the box, and there was no card inside. Fortunately, the staff at FutureShop belieived me when I returned it.