Oh no, not me :-)
An article published in PC PRO caught my eye last month.
Probably worth a gander if ye or someone else is thinking of sticking a pin in Yellow Pages for a PC service, or following up a dodgy fly poster stuck to a lamp-post showing a mobile number ...
A quick summary of cowboy efforts described in that ...
- Here today, gone tomorrow - they run off with your PC,
- The ?beyond repair? bluff - offer a silly scrappage value,
- The memory game - don't install the memory as promised,
- The hostage situation - a ransom to return the PC,
- The blank screen of opportunity - non required parts,
- Virus cold-callers - remote access extortion,
- Hot-Kit shuffle - pinching internal expensive parts,
- The snoop patrol - pinching customers data,
- Phantom repairs - made up issues resolved at cost,
- The price gouge - extreme overcharging,
- The Windows wiper - reinstalling windows and data gone,
- The Insurance fiddle - falsified claims for replacement kit,
- Business shortcuts - shoddy work,
- The untrained expert - bodgers without skills,
- License-key lifting - user now denied software updates.
In the words of Shaw Taylor, "Keep 'em peeled!"