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I got pranked with this website: https://updatefaker.com/

I recently switched from manual labor to office labour and learned the hard way to lock my screen :)

In hindsight it was hilarious, but I waited for maybe 20 minutes before I got suspicious. How can I take revenge?

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[–] Lakes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Have any other monitors available?

If you do, literally change the monitor and hide the other one. Smaller the better.

[–] bazsy@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Open fakeupdate.net put it in full screen (F11) and watch them debating how much of their work was unsawed.

[–] minorsecond@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

You just gave me an awesome prank to pull on my wife. Thanks!

[–] ezmack@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

We'd change their desktop background to something stupid

Put one of them fake ransom ware screens

[–] MothBookkeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In our office, any time someone leaves their screen unlocked, we turn everything upside down in the display settings. Good way to remind people to Win + L when they get up. πŸ˜†

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not sure this works anymore or if it ever did since I heard about it years ago, but when you send an email to someone on something like gmail who doesn't use some form of adblocker, be sure to put some hidden text in whatever color the background of their client is. Apparently they'll eventually start seeing ads for that specific thing you hid in the email since those emails are most certainly scanned so you can get targeted ads (especially gmail and most likely outlook as well).

[–] peter@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You probably need to receive more than one email about a subject before you start getting targeted ads

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Forgot to mention the part about it being something you need to constantly do. Thanks for the heads up.

[–] SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hit my boss with tellyourpartner.org earlier this week, a website that anonymously texts your partner with a list of STIs you select and a suggestion to get tested. Be careful tho it kinda back fired and he messaged a few of his exes lmao

[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a horrible thing to do to someone

[–] SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

That’s construction for ya. The pranks can be ruthless

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