BTO Claim Fraud & Man Gets Broken PC
Posted: 03rd Oct, 2003 By: MarkJ
UK ISP BTOpenworld has accused one of its customers, Keith Calder, of fraudulently accessing the Internet and demanded that he pay £1,700 despite no evidence being found by the police. The investigation itself also appears to have near trashed his £4,000 PC:
But police found no evidence that he was attempting to gain access to the Internet without paying, and the case against him was dropped after prosecutors rejected a report by Trading Standards officers.
One of the peculiarities of the case is that, at the time of the raid, Calder states that he was paying £60 a month to access BT's Openworld Broadband Satellite service. "Why would I then want to hack into the Internet when I have this?" he asked.
Even though Calder was cleared of the charges against him, Moray Council's Trading Standards department initially said it intended to destroy the computer anyway. However, after his story appeared in the Press and Journal, council officials relented and agreed to hand over the PC. Calder was left fuming at its allegedly poor state of repair.
"My computer was in bits," he said. "The tower had been damaged, the printer was not working and was leaking ink and the satellite modem had not been put back together properly."
OH-MY-GOD; BTOpenworld has done a grand job of associating its name with some truly bizarre cock-ups, but this takes the cake - not to mention the computer ;). We could say so many things about this, but no doubt some of you will do that for us. More @ The Register.
But police found no evidence that he was attempting to gain access to the Internet without paying, and the case against him was dropped after prosecutors rejected a report by Trading Standards officers.
One of the peculiarities of the case is that, at the time of the raid, Calder states that he was paying £60 a month to access BT's Openworld Broadband Satellite service. "Why would I then want to hack into the Internet when I have this?" he asked.
Even though Calder was cleared of the charges against him, Moray Council's Trading Standards department initially said it intended to destroy the computer anyway. However, after his story appeared in the Press and Journal, council officials relented and agreed to hand over the PC. Calder was left fuming at its allegedly poor state of repair.
"My computer was in bits," he said. "The tower had been damaged, the printer was not working and was leaking ink and the satellite modem had not been put back together properly."
OH-MY-GOD; BTOpenworld has done a grand job of associating its name with some truly bizarre cock-ups, but this takes the cake - not to mention the computer ;). We could say so many things about this, but no doubt some of you will do that for us. More @ The Register.
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