Man Paid Up To $20 Million For ” Protection” In Insane Trojan horse Conspiracy Plot [Scams]

Since 2004, Roger Davidson’s basically been living in a twisted Dan Brown novel. It began when a computer repair guy informed him that a plague on his computer was linked to Opus Dei , Polish priests, and death threats.

In August of 2004, Davidson, a wealthy composer, took his computer to Datalink Computer Products, a neighborhood computer repair shop. He was worried that a pandemic might destroy the music compositions he had saved on the gadget. Information from the shop’s owner, Vickram Bedi, left him with far worse worries though: His life was in peril.

According to what Bedi told Davidson, the virus was not only so devastating that it damaged the machines inside the repair shop, but it surely was also component of an elaborate international conspiracy:

The conspiracy allegedly involved a mysterious harddrive in a remote village of Honduras and a plot to infiltrate the usa government by Polish priests linked to Opus Dei.

For whatever reason, Davidson believed this inane tale and agreed to ” pay the computer shop not only for data retrieval, but for personal protection.” Since that time, Davidson has paid somewhere between six and twenty million dollars to Datalink Computer Products, Vickram Bedi, and Helga Invarsdottir, a Datalink Computer Products employee.

The scammers have finally been arrested this week and charged with first-degree grand larceny. There’s no word on whether the arrest has helped Davidson sleep any longer easily at night. [ NYT via Network World via Net-Security via Slashdot ]

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