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Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support

by deanalevitt on 3/30/19, 10:38 AM with 10 comments

• by mchannon on 3/30/19, 5:42 PM

  Office Depot blackmailed me, with the help of corrupt U.S. government agents, and sentenced me to prison.

  It wasn’t good enough that we proved they made money on my dealings with them, or that the terms and conditions I was convicted of violating (not laws) came into effect after I allegedly violated them.

  In the discovery process, they divulged thousands of their own customers’ personal information, to me, without realizing it.

  Surprisingly, nobody has cared enough to report on this.

  The Government won’t send their execs to prison. Their execs are the ones our elected officials answer to.

  This is not a joke. This is your country, America.

• by chewyland on 3/30/19, 12:43 PM

  Should have been a 350 mil fine and a criminal investigation.

• by DigiMortal on 3/30/19, 5:38 PM

  Staples is doing much better than Office Depot in their space, but both companies are way more focused on their B2B delivery side of the business. They stopped caring about retail side years ago, though what Office Depot did was slimy

• by naveen99 on 3/30/19, 9:06 PM

  I wonder why the bean counters at corporations and governments don’t count and keep track of the computer resources / electricity / employee time used by anti virus.