Virus Removal Scam Nets $6 Million – eSecurity Planet
Two conmen recently stole $6 million from a jazz pianist in a complex virus-related blackmail scam.
"The odd tale began after the great-grandson of an oil industry tycoon, jazz pianist Roger Davidson, brought his PC in for repair back in August 2004, believing it to be virus-laden," writes The Register's John Leyden. "Computer repairman Vickram Bedi, 36, from Chappaqua, New York, first stung Davidson for inflated data retrieval costs and charges -- also telling him his machine had infected others in the repair shop."
"Bedi and his girlfriend Helga Invarsdottir, 39, then cooked up a far more ambitious and implausible scam," Leyden writes. "The duo teamed up to claim they had discovered evidence that Davidson's life was in danger while disinfecting Davidson's machine."
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