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My brother actually laughed at dinner and said, ‘I sold that useless laptop of yours for five hundred bucks. Finally got rid of your junk.’ My cousins cheered him on. Then he added, almost proudly, ‘Already handed it off to the buyer.’ I got up, stepped outside, and called my supervisor. By the time I made the report, the FBI cyber team was already tracking the device…

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it was an ordinary personal device becomes difficult to sustain.”

“I understand.”

There was more.

Messages with the buyer’s fake Marketplace account. The buyer responded in minutes. Offered full asking price without negotiation. Wanted same-day pickup. Asked if the machine still had “original operating environment.” Derek responded with the kind of fake continue reading …

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