Man selling used phone in Indonesia scammed by buyer who paid with hand-drawn money 3 months In a world where shady characters exist aplenty, there are extremely elaborate scams, and then there are ones like these that baffle to no end. A man from Kalimantan, Indonesia found himself the victim of an extremely comical con job where he sold off his used handphone to a buyer who paid for it with fake money drawn on multipurpose paper with red markers. The story first appeared on Indonesian social media and news portals on December 18, 2020, and detailed how the man – whose name has been withheld – realized he'd been scammed only after it was already too late.