Users Conned by Cable Con

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."

Comments

Entrapment?

[Anubis333]

ENTRAPMENT - A person is 'entrapped' when he is induced or persuaded to commit a crime that he had no previous intent to commit.

Isn't it illegal to entrap people by soliciting via spam email for them to purchase your illegal product then twisting the screws because they use it? If the government can't do it, why is Big Business allowed to?

Re:Saddam Hussein, leader, dead at 54

[foniksonik]

oh you know it was just a double... poor doubles.

I Hate Morons

[evilviper]

A Quote from the end of the story:

"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

How many times have we heard this? It's thrown around all too often, as if humans have some overriding sense of reality that can tell them what is reasonable, and what is not, when dealing with technology that they have zero experience in. If you don't know how digital cable systems work, you might believe this will do the trick. Then again, if you read this article, you might believe that satellite test-cards are phony as well, but guess what...

"Gee, a $200 computer... That sounds too good to be true, I guess WalMart got into the fraud business. Not me! I'm not going to get scammed into buying their $200 computer."

"Gee, you mean my ability to setup computer networks can get me hundreds of thousands of dollars? Nah! That couldn't be true."