Today's scam
Apr. 2nd, 2009 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dsrtaoLet's combine the naive (college freshmen) but rich (97% or so have newish laptops) with a real issue (computer security).
Park a truck on campus in September. Offer "computer cleaning and tune-up services" with a nice large bulletin
board of services you perform. Probably ought to put up three tiers of service. Tune the prices to appeal to college students -- say, $20, $35, and $60. Make it clear that the $35 service is the one to go for.
Take the laptops, hand them a receipt, say you'll be back tomorrow, so make sure you have your receipt.
Option #1. On to the next campus, with 200 laptops to sell on ebay.
Option #2. Slap in a CD that changes the wallpaper and runs a free registry-cleaner and turns on the firewall.
Option #3. Install Linux.
Park a truck on campus in September. Offer "computer cleaning and tune-up services" with a nice large bulletin
board of services you perform. Probably ought to put up three tiers of service. Tune the prices to appeal to college students -- say, $20, $35, and $60. Make it clear that the $35 service is the one to go for.
Take the laptops, hand them a receipt, say you'll be back tomorrow, so make sure you have your receipt.
Option #1. On to the next campus, with 200 laptops to sell on ebay.
Option #2. Slap in a CD that changes the wallpaper and runs a free registry-cleaner and turns on the firewall.
Option #3. Install Linux.
