No one's commenting about how golden your post title is, so I wanted to.

I was once hired to fix a computer. I told them that the fix would just be a simple reformat, and asked if they wanted me to back up any files.

they said no, they had backed everything up already. I asked if they wanted to take one last look through the system to make sure. They got huffy and told me to just take care of it already.

So I did.

then they asked me to restore their files.

it was a CD-R of hundreds of desktop links to programs, and even photos. no actual data. just links.

They were not happy when I explained it to them.

i can totally believe the story in Op's picture to be one that actually happened.

Cybercrime isn't what it used to be.

100 games and only 37KB? Jackpot!

Game shortcuts? Like what windows calls symlinks, you copy them to your USB drive and then they don’t work when you get home?

The perfect crime.

Holy shit, I can still laugh!

The birth of a super villain, I'm quite sure Elon musk started like this

What's a "cyber cafe," grandpa? Is it a sex thing?

See the PC cases in the background? That's still the case I use to this day. It's my fifth PC in it. I don't know why I should change a case.

This reminds me of how a buddy of mine used to rename his desktop files from like "Carmaggedon demo" to remove the "demo" because it made him feel rich.

I used to do this with floppy disks!

i used to have this case on my computer!

it is still laying around somewhere

omfg I remember laughing at classmates that did this way back in the era of knights and magic

🤣

Surely if copy paste didn't work, the "send to" button will lol

we used to burn installers to CDs and pass them around computer class when the teacher wasn't looking

God tier title OP