Scammers Lower Comcast Bills, Get Jail Time

Posted by Unknown on Monday April 21, 2014 @09:07PM from the no-one-weeps-for-comcast dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news about a scam with a twist. The scammers purchased login details to internal Comcast systems from an employee using them to lower the bills of Comcast customers, for a price. "Alston Buchanan, the mastermind of a two-man scam to lower the bills of Comcast customers for a price, pleaded guilty last week and awaits sentencing. His accomplice, Richard Justin Spraggins, who also pleaded guilty in February, will serve 11-23 months in prison and pay Comcast $66,825. Their operation purportedly cost Comcast $2.4 million, and Comcast claims that the loss has forced them to raise the rates on all their customers. However, the allegedly huge financial loss went undetected until a Comcast customer reported his/her suspicions to Comcast customer service."

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Forced them by Anonymous Coward · 2014-04-21 21:15 · Score: 5, Funny

"Forced them to raise the rates on all their customers"
Literally everything forces them to raise their rates.
1. Re:Forced them by Anonymous Coward · 2014-04-21 21:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Literally everything forces them to raise their rates.
  Damn... You just forced them again with your comment! STOP!!!!
A brief message from Comcast by wjcofkc · 2014-04-21 23:31 · Score: 3, Funny

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