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Scammers Lower Comcast Bills, Get Jail Time

Posted by Unknown on 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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  1. Forced them by Anonymous Coward · · 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 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Literally everything forces them to raise their rates.

      Damn... You just forced them again with your comment! STOP!!!!

    2. Re:Forced them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      these lucky 6000 customers were probably paying what they **would have been paying** had government regulation still existed with regards to cable tv rates. deregulation is not necessarily a good thing, especially in areas where there is virtually zero built-in competition for wireline coax-delivered services.

  2. Re:Something smells fishy here by Entropius · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When dealing with Comcast my moral compass doesn't read accurately because of all of their bullshit.