Clever AIM bot prank. i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?

[Celeras]

So I got this IM last night, from some random guy. Heres the conversation, I blocked out my own name, but the bots name is intact

scrubtron (17:40:36): i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?
xxxxxxxxxx (17:40:52): can't say that I have
scrubtron (17:42:53): I ate it
xxxxxxxxxx (17:44:13): That's a shame
scrubtron (17:44:44): Oh well
scrubtron (17:44:58): Mind if I ask who you are?
xxxxxxxxxx (17:45:21): you IM'ed me
scrubtron (17:45:30): You IMed me!
xxxxxxxxxx (17:45:45): Yeah, ya got me.
scrubtron (17:46:04): Fancy that, I guess it's been nice talking to you. Sorry I ate your hat.
xxxxxxxxxx (17:48:50): Forgiven, bye
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Session concluded at 5:50:14 PM
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Doesn't look like much, right? Just some random dude, possibly a friend, deciding to screw with me. I dont think much of it. Well while I was out today, I came home to this message.

thegreathatsby: i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?

Alright, is this a quote from somehting I never heard of? So I did first thing most of us would do, googled it! First link, showed this:

http://tesseractivity.livejournal.com/6157.html

Pretty clever if I do say so myself. I found it amusing ;D It happened again earlier today, but I decided to not let it go on very long because I was busy:

thegreathatsby (20:55:32): i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?
thegreathatsby (20:55:38): i havent
xxxxxxxxxx (20:55:45): Dont say another word
xxxxxxxxxx (20:55:47): read this
xxxxxxxxxx (20:55:48): http://tesseractivity.livejournal.com/6157.html
xxxxxxxxxx (20:56:19): We are being pranked by an AIM bot, hiding our names, and relaying both sides of a conversation to fool us.
thegreathatsby (20:57:22): word
xxxxxxxxxx (20:57:50): So right now both our names are cloaked as "thegreatthatsby", as seen here thegreathatsby (20:57:22): word
xxxxxxxxxx (20:58:17): lol, so yeah. Humourous at first but I'm kinda busy right now, so I figured id let ya in on it. ^_^ So sorry, have a nice day
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Session concluded at 8:59:42 PM
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Anyone else have any experience with this? I've told a couple of friends about it, and they seemed to have gotten it too.

[Not Kuno]

No. Blocking everyone not on list ftw.

[edgarfigaro]

so basically, if you're not a retard, you won't be pranked?

(in this case, retard=anyone with a livejournal)

[Amarok]

lol @ thegreathatsby