I respect the humility you've shown here, even though you messed up by offering your services to the prankster.  Sometimes greed can cloud our judgement and make us do ridiculous things.  But your response after the fact shows that you at least have a conscience, which is more than can be said for the rest of these booger-eating morons who would stand on their heads and spit nickels for a few satoshis.  So props to you for this.