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domenica 14 novembre 2010

Man Conned Out of Millions for ''Virus Protection''

That's some real-life malware.



Computer viruses are serious business. Like real viruses, infections must be dealt with quickly and thoroughly. Sadly, just like real-life healers of viruses, sometimes there are crooks out there.

Such goes the story of 58-year-old Roger C. Davidson from Mount Kisco, NY, who has been cheated out of millions after bringing his computer into a repair shop for fear that his machine had been infected with a virus.

In August 2004, he brought his computer to a shop on Main Street. There, Vickram Bedi, 36, the owner of the shop, told Davidson that he indeed had a virus. This wasn't just any computer virus – oh, no – it was a particularly vicious one that had infected all the computers in the shop.

Thankfully, Bedi's uncle was a military officer in India and was put on the mission to retrieve the source of this virus on a hard drive located in Honduras. From there, Bedi learned that the virus was linked to Polish priests who were tied to the conservative Roman Catholic organization Opus Dei. This organization had plans to harm Mr. Davidson.

Naturally, Bedi persuaded Davidson to not only pay for removal of the virus, but also for personal protection. Davidson paid Bedi's shop through credit card payments over the years, which have totaled to over $6 million.

While all of this sounds impossible and a very simple scam to steer clear of, Mr. Davidson was in no way a computer expert. His specialty is in music and he wanted to save his compositions that he stored on his computer.

15 commenti:

  1. and i thought the fake antivirus programs were bad...

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  2. lol that sucks,i dont trust any of those norton programs

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  3. Whether true or not, an amazing story!

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  4. wow how stupid can a man be?

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  5. It's sad for the guy yet the organisation seemed quite well done. I mean, getting a virus from a computer shop which was also located in Honduras and held by Polish priests who were tied to the conservative Roman Catholic organization Opus Dei. hahaha

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  6. you have a really nice blog and just got a new follower ;) !
    Thanks for the post :)

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  7. great post. this guy should of been more computer savy before handing over millions for a computer repair that should of not taken less than 1 day to repair correctly.

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