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Man Loses Millions In Bizarre Virus-Protection Scam

Posted by timothy on from the security-theater-with-a-human-face dept.

Orome1 writes "A US court has heard that a couple conned at least $6 million from the great-grandson of an oil industry tycoon after he brought his virus-infected computer in for repair. The couple are said to have tricked the composer into believing that, while investigating the virus, they had found evidence that his life was in danger – concocting a story that the virus had been tracked to a hard drive in Honduras, and that evidence had been found that the composer's life was in danger." The victim here, Roger Davidson, may have lost as much as $20 million, after being convinced that he was in danger from a grand conspiracy. Vickram Bedi and girlfriend Helga Invarsdottir convinced Davidson to pay $160,000 monthly, and possibly much more, for their help.

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  1. And... by revscat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Trust fund baby gets taken to the cleaners by modern day Robin Hoods. The only reaction I can think worthy of this heinous act is...

    applause

    1. Re:And... by HeckRuler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      And there's nothing wrong with being born poor, other then an elevated tendency to grow up into a crack-addled homeless and jobless loser. Indeed it's a lot like being born rich. There's nothing wrong with it other then an elevated tendancy to be a spoiled useless brat who's a drain to society. Or worse, a boss.

  2. Illegal? Immoral? by VendettaMF · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm really not sure that anything that should be classed as a crime has occurred here.

    Anyone that dim should not have access to/control of anything close to that much money. It is far better for the nation and the world that the money is in the hands of the cognitively capable.

    --
    kartune85 : Incapable of reason, observation or learning. A kind of dim, drab, flightless parrot.
  3. Re:Now That's Bizarre by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We now decide on whether or not someone gets to keep their money on the basis of how hard he / she worked to earn it?? What subcommittee, from the dark nether regions of Cthulu's domain, decided this stellar policy in my absence?

    One does wonder ... does Obama secretly slashdot ?