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Users Conned by Cable Con

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 18, 2003 @08:33PM from the nelson-laughs dept.

RJ Mansfield writes "MSNBC is running a story on users attempting to con their cable companies being connned. The high-cost filter being sold on Ebay and through email Spam to bypass Pay-Per-View (PPV) digital cable systems is a readily available filter that only temporarily blocks the PPV charges. Users are getting shocked when the cable company then bills the cable user for all of the ordered PPV."

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wasting a bit of karma by trelanexiph · 2003-03-18 21:15 · Score: 0, Flamebait

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
now you have learned a hard lesson, trying to fuck with the system, does not and will not ever pay off. Really you should know better by now. But I personally think it's damn funny you A: bought something you saw in spam or on ebay only, B: got ripped off doing it and C: TRIED TO STEAL FROM YOUR CABLE COMPANY. Do you think they became multibillion dollar companies for being STUPID? what in the hell were you thinking? With karma to spare I felt this needed to be said.