Victoria! Victoria!
The best social-engineering prank ever.
To haze a star player on the opposing team in a vital basketball match, University of California Berkeley students created a fake online female personality. For the week prior to the game “Victoria” chatted up Gabe Pruitt via AOL’s Instant Messenger program.
The prank was only revealed when the game started and the crowd started chanting “Victoria! Victoria!”, held up signs with her phone number on them and passed out printed transcripts of the messages they had exchanged.
The guy, uh, didn’t do so well during the game…