Create fake barcode to buy iPod for $ 4.99 USD

The 19-year-old scammer Jonathan Baldino will probably have to go to court to face many fraudulent allegations, including a level 5 scam. Baldino was grabbed on Wednesday (November 30) before forging an iPod price tag of $ 150 to $ 4.99.

Baldino is currently a first-year student, Colorado University's electrical engineering department, told police that he created fake barcode stamps from real barcode stamps he had removed from the faces. cheaper goods.

On November 16, he downloaded an Internet program called 'Barcode Magic'. He used this program to create a fake barcode like the price of a $ 18.99 portable CD player he bought. After successfully manufacturing this fake stamp, he brought it to the store and replaced it with the iPod's $ 249.99 stamp and the scam was a huge success. When he did the same thing again with the $ 150 iPod, he was grabbed at the battle.

THIEN TRANG