The too long didn’t read audio version of the story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_y2SkFj4lY&t=
When I was younger I wanted to get into repairing computers through craigslist or locally so I could hopefully make a little bit more money. Being 14 or 15, money comes around randomly so just the idea of fixing people’s computers got me excited. But I was limited though, I didn’t have a cell phone, I lived at my parents house and I don’t think they would be too excited having strangers from Craigslist dropping off computers.
So what I did was I registered for Craigslist and offered strictly remote support. My idea was genius, have people call me, I lead them through the installation of Teamviewer (for private use), they give me the numbers and I remote in. I could also charge ridiculously low prices since the only thing I was doing at the time was jerkin it, playing computer games and goofin off.
So I made my posts all over the United States, PA, OH, just every area I could get my hands on. Eventually some calls started coming into my home phone, I made sure to plant my home phone in my room just in case if my parents answered haha. A few months in I got this phone call from this older gentlemen, he must of been about 70 years old.
He says to me “I’m having some issues printing, some issues with my internet browser” and I’m like alright, let’s get this done. So I led him through the process of installing the remote software and I remoted in. The first thing that I saw was pretty odd. On the right of Windows XP desktop I saw Yahoo Chat. Which is suspicious, very, very suspicious. I can’t give one reason to anyone to use Yahoo Chat, the only time Yahoo Chat is brought up is when Chris Hansen reads you your chat log when you’re sitting at the island of the kitchen trying, denying that you were trying to meet a 12 year old boy you met on the internet.
And inside of this Yahoo Chat, I saw many provocative usernames. One of them that stood out to me had to do something with panties, It had to be something like Pantyboy or Pantygirl, who knows. All I know that it was creepy. So I launch into this guys internet browser to hopefully get an idea on why he called me. We’re both on the phone with each other and he didn’t say anything about the Yahoo Chat or what I happened to see inside of his Internet Explorer.
Right at the bottom I could see his previously visited pages, or searches. Something like that and I see “Young male blokes” and all I could say is huh, I didn’t really understand what a bloke was but some googling later it had something to do with men, so “young men” this 70 year old guy was googling.
I’m keeping it cool during this whole process, didn’t wanna blow my chance of getting PayPal’d 20 bucks. Somehow in the process of repairing his computer I ended up in his documents and something caught my eye. I saw one image, one really lonely image. It wasn’t even named anything that could make me even guess what it was, there was no thumbnail either. So I HAD to see what it was. I mean hell it could be child porn, and if it is we could get this guy to jail. That’s how I justified my next action. I popped open a file transfer window on my end, minimized whatever popped up on his screen. Went through the file directory and shot it over to my computer.
What I saw next answered all of the questions I could have about this 70 year old man on Craigslist. I opened it and BAM, right there in my face was this man who looked to be in this thirties strung out on the couch with pubes, and when I mean pubes, loads of them. He was wearing bright pink panties with a terribly sexually seductive face. So now I know this guy isn’t a threat, sadly I couldn’t report him to the authorities for being a creepy old dude. But what I can do is claim my 20 dollars in PayPal and that’s exactly what I did.
