RussellMc wrote:
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> > If they actually do sell PC support (and do just that) it's quite a cle=
ver way
> > to hook up customers.
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> Yes. But ...
> They acquire the customers by telling complete and utter lies, showing
> them folders full of files which they claim prove that the PC is
> infected badly and is working badly, THEN when you do log into their
> system, a number of reports say that they damage various parts of tye
> system for whatever reason. One person reported simultaneously losing
> address books from all 3 email clients on their system. (Once is
> happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action).
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> So there is every reason to think that they are dishonourable liars
> and incompetent at best and probably up to mischief as well.

The PC equivalent of unscrupulous local corner garages from 20=20
years ago applying all sorts of mischief to automotive repair.=20

There has been online trojans that offered to take spy ware and virus
of computers for a fee for some time. The telephone calls are=20
in some ways a new way to promote the same thing.

For the last few months my company has been receiving calls from
multiple individuals offering discounts to process credit card=20
billing through them. The potential damage could be huge for anyone=20
gullible enough to get involved.

The normal way business credit cards are handled in Canada is through=20
a charted bank. As a business we are required to certify that all=20
credit card records of transactions are protected and destroyed after=20
the records are no longer legally needed.=20


Walter..
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