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Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support
Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found them. Unfortunately, he then put them up on a site called "bitchtara."
tu;dw too ugly, didn't watch
lol
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Is this woman a complete moron? What is it exactly that she expected. What an utter dunce.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
The bare facts certainly are disturbing. But the naked truth is that Dell's customer service is just obscene. I think that support analyst should be stripped of his position.
So she took the pics and then "lost them"... but the support guy found them in her email. She obviously sent/received them at some point, and how she could just 'forget' they were in her email is hard to fathom. Then she sends the guy who WORKS FOR DELL a laptop? She may be the victim, but boy is she good at it.
Oh, and of course: PICS OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN
Pics still up?
The only way to get action from companies today is to publish a bad PR story.
How sad is that?
That is the real problem, lack of accountability not the fact that it happens, that the only way to get it fixed is to make the company suffer publically.
This is what dell gets for moving techs to india
And I imagine Dell pays it's Indian call centre staff significantly less than a western minimum wage.
Blame Dell if you like, but it's not as if this woman did not know she was talking to someone Dell was taking advantage of.
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Jesus Christ people give Americans some credit, they aint that stupid!
That, that really grinds my gears!
stupidbitchtara?
http://www.acetonestudio.com
it's the only way to protect the American Way of Life. Service like this you just can't get in the US. I'm glad Dell is looking out for their customers.
THINKING AbOUT IT. and some of the
Costs a lot less to live in India.
Less than a western minimum wage doesn't mean it is a bad rate in India. Doesn't mean he was being taken advantage of.
If true, someone at Dell could end up having a friendly conversation with someone from the FBI.
If it was only exposure of private data (pictures) then Dell may have gotten away with a just a civil resolution. If it is true that the tech extorted a laptop, then it becomes a criminal case. People can go to jail.
This could become quite costly to Dell in terms of goodwill if proven that someone representing them extorted material goods from one of their own customers.
No sig. Move along - nothing to see here.
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Pics or it didn't happen.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
is it just me or does she sound waaaay naive
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
Dell's attorney's have assured Tara she is their 'true friend', and will help her resolve this if she will send them a new Dell laptop.
It's supposed to be completely automatic, but actually you have to press this button.
Whether or not a company or employee has an obligation to respect your privacy (I think they always should do so, but that's irrelevant), if you are going to give them the opportunity to violate it, you had better be prepared for the consequences if they do. While you may have legal recourse against them, that recourse might not be any real consolation, so one should not presume that their confidential information will stay confidential, if they are giving access to it to somebody else who has not actually *personally* earned we sort of their trust through an already existing relationship of some kind.
When you are giving your computer, or control of your computer, to somebody else, *ANYTHING* that is on that system that you do not want them to know about, whether or not there is even an explicit promise of confidentiality, should, as a rule, always be removed from it. The only exception to this if the measure of control that you are granting to them would not otherwise permit them to normally access the confidential information, *AND* you have sufficient faith in the security present on the computer to prevent the unauthorized access.
There are people in this world who do not necessarily follow all the rules of our society, and when one does not take whatever measures they reasonably can to protect themselves from being taken advantage of, even though they may not necessarily deserve to be exploited, when it happens it still seems like they had it coming.
I hope, for her sake, that she finds whatever compensation she can get to make up for what has happened, although I doubt it will.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
From the video: "I trusted him because he was a Dell technician"
Using my amazing powers of deduction, I have found this to be the root cause of the trouble.
-1 disagree is not a modifier for a reason. -1 troll, flaimbait, redundant, overrated are NOT acceptable substitutes.
And it took me forever to get my pics off of fathairybasementdwellers.com
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Anytime you employee over 75,000 people, some of them are bound to be douchebags.
Though the images themselves are down.
Here's a screenshot:
People in Indonesia line up for MILES to get a US Outsourced job like this. They get paid roughly similar to what a DOCTOR in these places makes. They can live VERY nice, middle-class lives with the money they're making.
Maybe you should do a quick study on the Cost of Living in these countries before you start spouting off how Dell (or any other company) is "taking advantage" of workers in other countries.
It appears shes does a little nude webcam work. Is she so surprised there are nude pictures of her floating around?
http://www.ashcams.com/profile/taritabonita
http://bitchtara.webs.com/ Here is the link to the bitchara site.Scary dancing in the video.
I'd bet this is actually a case of jealousy.
My take is that she got jealous that her indian boyfriend fell in love with that blondie, then made all this crap up. Why? You can see a chat window where she was clearly talking to someone she had some sort of love (or at least close) relationship with. "I'm worried about you"? Is that something you'd tell a company's representative "helping" you with a tech problem?
So she got mad that he fell in love with someone else after "making" her send him a laptop, and made all this up.
How do we know Dell is responsible? Couldn't her boyfriend have uploaded them? Couldn't her machine be infected with something that exposed the pictures?
How may rupees is a gallon of eye bleach these days?
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Dude, you're getting a Boner.
He stole her nude pics during a webex session, got her to send him a laptop in the mail, and then set up a website domain calling her - SPECIFICALLY - a bitch.
Mel Gibson has a new hero.
The "watch video" button has never been less appealing...
"Romantic conversations
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Following the initial technical call, conversations between Fitzgerald and Shaikh quickly turned personal. Fitzgerald admitted being flattered by the attention from the Indian support tech, whose MySpace page identifies him as being 24 years old. "He's very charming and he knew exactly what to say. It warmed my heart," she said.
Fitzgerald shared a number of personal e-mails Shaikh sent her from his Hotmail account shortly after their first conversation, including the following message dated Jan. 11, 2009:
"There are no words to express how I feel about you. I constantly search for the words, and they all seem less than I truly feel. You are my life, my heart, and my soul. You are my best friend. You are my one true love. I still remember the day we first met. I knew that you were the one I was meant to be with forever."
On Valentine's Day 2009, Fitzgerald said Shaikh told her he had fallen in love with a 22-year-old woman in Tennessee who had also called Dell technical support.
Fitzgerald later discovered two mysterious purchases on Feb. 17 totalling $802 charged to her Dell Preferred credit card. She called Dell and was told the charges were for a computer system and router shipped to a woman in Waynesboro, Tennessee."
(Outsourcing nightmare: Sacramento woman describes Dell tech support abuse (watch video report), RGJ.com, July 29, 2010)
This is a simple case of theft and harassment. Jail for the perp,
RTFA. It may not be that simple. The guy works for a call center in India, not Dell in Texas.
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When I first read the name I thought that maybe the British actress of the same name, notorious for (tasteful) nude scenes in 1990s films. Obviously not.
So, maybe this is all made up and the woman's real name isn't Tara Fitzgerald at all?
Agrajag: "Oh no, not again!"
She is a pay-cam-whore. www(dot)ashcams(dot)com/profile/taritabonita
Sounds like a scam to 1) avoid paying her Dell bill 2) get more traffic.
telcos used women as operators.
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
I find this story hilarious. I'll never get tired of laughing at people being stupid. Unfortunately society has made it OK to be stupid about computers. The words "I'm not computer savvy" have become like fingernails on a chalk board to me. This woman didn't NEED to be computer savvy, she just needed to not be a complete maroon. The part about a stolen credit card... alright, I'll agree that was messed up and illegal. But the pictures, and sending a laptop... No excuse. Why do we as a society allow people to use their computer ineptitude as an excuse for being taken advantage of, or not getting work done, or damaging company property? It has become acceptable, and this is wrong.
... Tara Fitzgerald.
"Stupid is as stupid does."
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
pics or it didn't happen
- That Dell tech would go to the bother and expense of creating a whole website called "bitchtara.com" and domain to post incriminating photos of some random person who happened to call them, in the hopes that they would extort out of her, of all things, a DELL laptop...
- That the woman e-mailed them to her BF or whoever, and the photos made the rounds to someone who dislikes her (heck maybe her ex BF himself, and THEY set up the website.called "bitchtara.com", an obviously personal name, to try to get back at her for some reason.
I vote for #2. This is painfully obviously much ado about nothing and if I was Dell I would be very pissed.
Man exploits flaw in system, acts like an asshole! Film at eleven.
Link Please
Nobody is this stupid. This is the internet version of calling up the beer company saying you found a dead mouse in a bottle of their product and please send one million dollars to ease the mental anguish.
Also, dude looks like a lady.
She was trying to delete the pictures from an email that she had already sent to her boyfriend. I wonder if they are still dating, or if he just posted them in a drunken stupor one night. Dell was not the only one with access to the pictures and there will be little way to trace where the posting came from.
And she sent the laptop?
Sad. She should have called the police. And the police should have called Dell.
Me? Sure, I would send a laptop. What the heck. Does India charge customs fees for incoming gifts?
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
Some people are just too stupid to be allowed around computers.
"Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love." --William Shakespeare ('Love's Labors Lost')
Personally, I think she deserved it for dancing like this. (incidentally, this link is a cache of the original bitchtara.com website)
If you agree, then mod me up. And if you disagree... well, I'm pretty sure you'll agree.
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Where are those photos ??
I have been involved in the outsourcing many deparments and entire business divisions to India for a number of large US corporations. Despite some talented people being involved each time, I have never seen a project that has resulted in a good outcome for the clients of these organisations. Its certainly also always been bad news for the US (and the UK where I have also worked).
I was one of the primary reasons I left the IT industry completely and started my own business. The UK alone has lost an estimated 37% of its IT industry jobs to India in the past 36 months. I have never seen figures for the US but given my experience it must be significant (though not close to the losses from the UK I wouldnt imagine)
It also amazes me how many people have credit card details sold on to organised crime via these outsourcing hubs. yet the companies engaging the outsourcing partner do not aggresively seem to pursue the matter. Wait, could it be that greed for the savings of using virtual slave labor rather than local callcentres is over riding corporate conciense? and why dont the UK and US government move to support their IT industries against the competetive threat. In the UK the previous government actually aided the threat to our own industry. Stupidy, lack of awareness or a powerful lobby or all three.
1. If you're too stupid to do remove "sensitive" data from your computer & then do a secure erase on the empty disk space before giving it to someone else, that's your problem.
2. If you have naked pictures of yourself on your computer then it's for one of three reasons:
a) You're an attention seeker just waiting for someone to find them & post them publicly anyway,
b) You're planning to make money by selling them, in which case you probably need to get yourself on a training course to get a proper job or get some porno company to do the distribution for you
c) You've set up a deliberate honey-trap to make money from precisely this kind of thing happening.
3. Perhaps if companies didn't have dollar/pound signs in their eyes over outsourcing, they'd vet their employees better & hire people with some honesty & credibility. I fix the PCs of friends & relatives all the time, I know that if I trawled their hard drives I could find stuff they wouldn't want me to see, so I just don't do it.
4. In this woman's case, I don't think she need worry too much as I understand the market for granny porn is very small anyway.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
...because if she "watched him remove pictures via email" then 4 seconds of holding down the laptop's power button would have stopped him in his tracks.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
backtracing...
KING EDIT: Here she is "dancing"? in some sort of bra / lacey black thing... you're welcome?
edit: funny google result while we wait... (She and the Riyaz guy were Facebook friends but he has now deleted or deactivated his profile.)
edit: her facebook and his current facebook (he is friends with another woman who is friends with both him and Tara Fitzgerald)
edit: site was called "bitchtara" and was created Jan. 7 2009 but I can't locate it at the moment; it wasn't a registered domain as "bitchtara" so it must've been on a secondary hosting account or blog host
edit: lol, she was still talking to him and about him earlier this month
edit: here is her myspace page... warning... she is 48. We may not want to continue this search.
edit: her picasa
edit: her email: palomino67@gmail.com
final edit: the site was http://bitchtara.webs.com/ but it is gone and no cache has been located (alxother located the host and screenshot!)
well, it looks like someone has re-uploaded bitchtara to webs.com for her!
Surely he didn't create a site dedicated to exposing her photos - he just placed on on the web so she could easily access them in the future and save more expensive phone calls to tech support firms! I like the quotes from the 'webchats' - the video indicates it was via web cam but who is able to quote word for word what is said on a web cam chat?! If it was a type conversation, there will be logs I would think.
... where the fuck is a link to the nudes ? ;) :)
Thanks :)
Since dell either doesn't seem to care or has decided not to act (because its cheaper), I have a suggestion. STOP BUYING DELL PRODUCTS! if enough people do this, it will get their attention in a way they can't avoid.
Understanding is much like a 3-edged-sword. in this: there are always 2 sides and the truth.