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.

Comments

That's better than convincing him he was in dream

[microbee]

and he had to kill himself to wake up

Rings a bell

[Angst Badger]

There's an old saying that's just on the tip of my tongue. Now what is it?

Oh yeah, a fool and his money are soon parted.

Re:Now That's Bizarre

[operagost]

No, that's "documentpornkeepenimstackenfurfappen".