Ordered a new MacBook Pro, FedEx delivers an obviously empty box

Geez, dude, when you buy a house on Fake Street, aren’t you prepared for wonky deliveries?

A retired couple who bought a house on Fake Street in North Kackalacka showed up after the closing to find the entire street gone. (Totes Legit News link)

Pranks (and scams) like that recall the SSD’s which are typically high-capacity and fast, being sold cheaply. Not only did they have a regular SD card or two inside - maybe 8 Gb each) they had flashed the microcontroller to report 512Gb, 1024Gb.

And they would work. Slowly and only up to 16Gb.