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Man Loses Millions In Bizarre Virus-Protection Scam
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.
If he was successful as composer and had signed a deal with any of the big labels he would have been left empty-handed by now.
More and more I feel that people who are that paranoid and quick to believe conspiracies have an extreme form of narcissism. They actually believe that the are important enough to worth that much effort. They think the world is out to get them in fact most the world doesn't even know they are here.
Unlike everyone here who has all there important documents^Hporn encrypted and hidden with TrueCrypt on six hard drives stuffed in the laundry room and the USB stick stuffed in their mom's purse while tunneling into Slashdot with two proxies on different continents?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
L. Ron, is that you?
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yes, yes they do!
Well, yeah, but a good mechanic will do it properly. That's why you pay extra. Personally I'm not very good with cars and I don't have time to change the headlight fluid every six months, but I am concerned about driving at night when the headlights aren't ionized properly.
You should see my mechanic; he's not the cheapest but he'll fix problems with your car you didn't even know you had, and that other guys aren't sharp enough to notice.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
True, but in the case the only ones out to get him, well, got him. Maybe that means he should have been more paranoid...
Continents? Continents?!?
Piffle!
I'm riding 3 satellites and a worm-hole, baby!
Best,
Bruce Schneier
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
They're con artists. Are you saying you don't want artists to get their fair share of the work they produce? Are you valuing automobile design more than the incredible art of conning? It takes skill and cunning to be a con artist, something which very few people have. You should respect their profession instead of denigrating it as "fraud".
Ah! Artists are never really understood by the masses.
Note to self: if I think someone is scamming me, show him a bottle of shampoo bigger than 3 ounces. If he doesn't freak out, he's not a scammer.
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I was out that long? Seems like it happened just last week... How time flies
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
Unlike everyone here who has all there important documents^Hporn encrypted
"important documentporn"? I think you meant ^W or ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H.
Oh yeah, baby, fax that resume. Yeah, just like that...
Is the world so impoverished that we can't spare a few Backspace keys? Who needs ^H anymore? vi users who can't afford vim?
So no more pictures of my wife I guess ....
If you aren't part of the solution, then there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
Unlike everyone here who has all there important documents^Hporn encrypted
"important documentporn"? I think you meant ^W or ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H.
No, he got it right.
The word "documentporn" is german for porn kept at the office mixed into a stack of documents that no one would ever look at otherwise.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
terminals in the niiiiiiight exchanging asciii
whoops, we've dropped a byyyyte please hit the break key
dooobeee doobeedooooooooo
Perhaps you should try to not break so much stuff, you ham-fisted fuckhead.
Day 104: Things have been getting weird ever since I joined his raiding party. He trusts me. They all trust me. Well, except Cranston the Night Elf. I can tell he suspects something.
I'm starting to forget who I am. I've been getting deeper into cheetos. I miss my wife. I can't believe how long I've spent playing someone else.
Brilliant. I literally can't tell whether you're joking or not.
To prevent this day from getting worse, I'll just read ERROR as GOOD TH
Man:
Is your uh, is your wife interested in... photography, ay? 'Photographs, ay', he asked him knowlingly?
Squire:
Photography?
Man:
Snap snap, grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more?
Squire:
Holiday snaps, eh?
Man:
They could be, they could be taken on holiday.
Candid, you know, CANDID photography?
Squire:
No, no I'm afraid we don't have a camera.
Man:
Oh.
(leeringly)
Still, mooooooh, ay? Mwoohohohohoo, ay? Hohohohohoho, ay?
bickerdyke
No, what's sad is that you don't know how to use emoticons. "):" isn't a sad face.
liberal bias! you don't count a right-leaning sad face?
In Australia, pics of small-breasted women of any age are considered child porn...
Hmmm... weaponized small breasts. (looks down shirt) Screw this, I'm moving to Australia, and if anyone says my boobs are small, I can have them arrested for viewing child porn.
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