13-year-old Brandon Burns thought he'd received a Playstation 3 for Christmas. Sadly for Brandon, the box contained a local phone book and not a PS3. He wasn't upset, just amused. His reaction:

"Dang, those elves jacked my Playstation."

His parents, however, are pissed. They paid $500 for a phone book. Brandon's mom says that she'll try to return the phone book to EB Games, but is fairly certain that they "won't believe her."

Brandon's mom, if you're out there, don't bother trying to return the console to the employees who stole it in the first place. The former owner of a funeral home in Princeton, British Columbia, has been charged with fraud for Mike had his phone stolen and $239 in fraudulent calls made to Africa on November 4th, and even though he reported the charges on November 5th, Tmobile says he still has to pay up. Their inviolable policy is that you're responsible for the charges up until you report the phone as stolen. A reader writes in that he noticed an unusual charge for $8.95 on his bank card recently. He looked up the number connected to the charge—866-305-8808—at the website Police suspect that a card skimmer installed at a