Crafty Kid Cons Adults To Get Out Of Schoolwork

People should never underestimate the lengths someone will go to in order to get out of doing something. The effort may seem antithetical to laziness, but for responsibility-averse people, the result often remains satisfying. This advanced form of avoidance doesn't just bloom with adulthood. It's often a skill that is learned in childhood. And Twitter user @mfpiccolo recently gifted the internet with a thread that proves this scheming starts early. The story is about his niece, who like many other kids these days is attending class on Zoom. It shouldn't be surprising that the experience leaves something to be desired after enjoying ones education IRL. But while most kids have opted to slog through remote learning, this 8 year old decided to hatch a scheme that would leave her free from the oppressive bonds of online education. Her plan didn't just work - it stumped adults for weeks. The 17 tweet saga is so entertaining that Jimmy Kimmel had our little hero (and her mom) on his late night television show. But you don't have to take his (or our) word for it. The whole damn thing can be enjoyed below. 

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Font - Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo The grifter: My 8 year old niece The prize: Playing virtual hooky permanently (School Zoom calls) The marks: My sister, my brother in law, the teacher, the school's computer teacher, the principle and Zoom's support team The con: How she pulled it off... thread

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Font - Mike Piccolo ... @mfpiccolo Day 1: (Zero Day) My sister has three kids, all are currently in Zoom classes. Mysteriously one day, my niece's zoom stopped working. She went and told my sister who tried for over an hour to get her logged back in but could not. She figured it was a weird glitch. 4:22 AM 2/14/21 · Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo Day 2: The next day, sure as shit, the same thing happened. My niece was kicked off and couldn't log back in. My sister emails the teacher and tells her she is having issues with zoom and she will try to figure it out. 4:22 AM · 2/14/21 · Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo Day 3: Same story. Kicked off and couldn't login. The error says "Incorrect password" no matter how many times they try. My sister calls the teacher and they spend an hour or so trying to figure it out. No luck. 4:22 AM 2/14/21 Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo .. @mfpiccolo Day 4: My sister now takes my niece to her friends house to see if it is something with her internet or IP. Same story. It works but then kicks her off and can't log back in. This has to be some crazy bug in Zoom. "Maybe her account is flagged?", my sister (The Mark) exclaims. 4:22 AM 2/14/21 · Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo Day 5: Issue continues. After hours on the phone with Zoom tech support the techs are completely stumped. They say that the account was locked at some point but my sister knows there has been hundreds of login attempts from multiple locations so that makes sense. (or does it?)

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Font - Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo Day 6: Again, same issue with Zoom. The teacher recreates the whole zoom classroom from scratch. All thirty students have to update their calendar invites, re-login, etc. "This has to work, right??" Nope. 4:22 AM · 2/14/21 · Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo Day 7: Multiple calls to the principle finally gets the schools computer teacher to come out to the house to try and debug the issue on site. No luck. 4:22 AM 2/14/21 - Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo ... @mfpiccolo The rest of week 2: My sister has essentially given up on Zoom class for her and is now having to fully homeschool her. "At least I get to help you around the house" my niece says innocently. What a sweetheart. 4:22 AM · 2/14/21 · Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo Week 3: Now my sister is not even trying to have her attend school and is doing one on one homeschool. The rest of the time, my niece is helping out her siblings with their school (or playing if my sister is too busy to make sure she isn't) 4:22 AM 2/14/21 · Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo Yesterday: My sister sent my niece back to her friend's house where the problem seems to be happening less often. They sign her in and Zoom which seems to be working well for a while. Her friend happens to walk around the corner and sees my niece log out of Zoom! 4:22 AM - 2/14/21 · Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo My sisters friend asks why she did that and she replies "Oh it wasn't working well so I was trying to fix it." Skeptical but doesn't want to review her hand my sisters friend pretends that makes sense and walks out. The walls are closing in for my poor unsuspecting niece.

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Font - Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo My sister's friend is on to the con at this point. She now secretly watches from the other room where my niece cannot see her. After about an hour on Zoom, my niece can't take it anymore and executes the con to escape the boredom. 4:22 AM - 2/14/21 - Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo ... @mfpiccolo My sister's friend watches as my niece logs out, then repeatedly types in the wrong password to her account about 20 times. What my niece had figured out is that when you log in with an incorrect password, Zoom will lock your account for a set amount of time. 4:22 AM - 2/14/21 · Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo The more times you do this, the longer the wait period for you to get back into Zoom. She also noticed that the error that is presented to a user when they are locked is "Incorrect password" and not "your account has been locked" 4:22 AM · 2/14/21 - Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo ... @mfpiccolo My niece found the exploit and combined it with her cute 8 year old face, a face that never could tell a lie much less pull off an elaborate scheme to trick no less that 8 adults for 3 weeks straight. 4:22 AM · 2/14/21 · Twitter Web App

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Font - Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo Is it bad that when I heard the story I felt proud more than anything? As someone in the IT industry, let's pray she goes white-hat or we might all be in trouble. 4:22 AM 2/14/21 - Twitter Web App

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Smile - Mike Piccolo ... @mfpiccolo The grifter thread got my sister and niece on Kimmel! We're on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight @ 11:35 abc!! Sophia did a great job! IMMY Kihmel LIVE 9:33 PM 2/23/21 Twitter Web App

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Font - Derek Pando ... @djpando Replying to @mfpiccolo and @daeaves As a Zoom employee. If your niece applies for an internship at Zoom in a few years, l'd be happy to refer her. 8:40 PM · 2/15/21 · Twitter Web App

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Font - Rick Clark ... @Rickclark802 Replying to @mfpiccolo and @qwrrty My wife's a teacher and has a student the regularly that tries to fake like Zoom is broken. Silently mouths words, freezes in a pose like the screen is locked, stutters and then freezes. My wife is like,"there's a cat licking itself behind you. Get to work" 10:20 AM · 2/16/21· Twitter for iPhone

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Font - Blanche Poulet ... @fppoulet Replying to @mfpiccolo Went by my 8 Granddaughter dutifully doing her online math.only to notice she had her phone in her lap and was playing games...the kids have figure out that the app measures time in the app...not time working! They aren't stupid! 1:15 PM · 2/17/21· Twitter for iPhone

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Font - Words are cheap @words_are_sheep ... Replying to @mfpiccolo My personal takeaway from this story is that I am not clever enough to thrive at childhood during this particular point in history. Also, your niece has infinite potential. May The Force be with her. 1:37 PM · 2/17/21· Twitter for iPhone

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Font - Cath @perkieturkey Replying to @mfpiccolo and @drjudymelinek My friends kid took a screenshot of a screen loading gif and changed her name to "loading". Replaced the video with her new "zoom handle" and bingo - a week off class

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Organism - Kerstin Rollins •.. @kersipic Replying to @mfpiccolo I am her mom and my cute cherub daughter fooled me big time. But who isn't sick of zoom?! Hard to stay mad at her 9:53 PM · 2/15/21 · Twitter for iPhone

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