Friday, June 10, 2005
Hi-Pass Cable Filter Scam
You've probably seen lots of ads for these little suckers. They're usually silver in color and look like the front head of a regular coaxial cable (the same wire that your cable guy plugs into your TV). These worthless pieces of garbage were sold for massive profits primarily over eBay from 2001-2003, and scammers are still selling them!
Here's the crackdown on the cable filters...
They DON'T work and leave you with a MASSIVE Pay-Per-View bill! However, this is great news for the cable companies themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if the cable companies are the ones putting these devices on the market themselves... They have to make up for all those years of being ripped of by customers stealing free cable from the notorious "black descrambler box". LOL!
Anyway, I've seen this junk pieces being sold upwards of $300.00! And the guys who buy it save nothing on their cable bill, yet incur an even larger one!
The scammers sell these filters as guaranteed signal blockers... This part their being HONEST with, believe it or not. The hi-pass filters DO, in fact, BLOCK communication between your digital cable box and the you cable company "one-way", while the box continues to receive digital signals the "other way".
Put simply, when the filter is put on the cable box (and the cable wire attached to the other end of the filter) it "filters out" all outbound signals - i.e., the "purchased events history" which stored somewhere within the box (I've never seen a hard drive so it's probably stored on a security flash card or some sort) does not get transmitted back to the cable company. So basically you can order porn on pay-per-view all day long and never be charged... At least that's what the scammers tell you.
What happens after a random period of time of your box not communicating with the cable company is that the company puts a "lock" on your box at which point you cannot view digital channels anymore. (Remember, the "one way communication" enabled by the filter allows for INBOUND RECEPTION only... I.e., the cable company can "do stuff" to the box even though it is not receiving data back from the box.)
This is where the would-be cable thief runs into troubles. He's now sitting home with a stubborn box that won't unlock. So he goes and emails the seller, and if the seller (scammer) is nice enough to reply he'll just email back a bullsh*t document which teaches you "various methods of unlocking your digital cable box"... Of which none work. I've read one guy decided to spill some water into the box... All he got was a buncha smoke and a $300 box which had to replaced.
So what happens next? The would-be cable thief might get some annoying inquiry calls from the cable company regarding the blocked communication. Eventually, he'll have to remove the filter and come clean and call up the cable company to have the box unlocked. And I bet you anything these cable guys KNEW what was going on all along, but they just sit there till you've made enough purchases before locking up your box through a local area "freeze signal".
So now the guy has three things on his mind: $300 in lost money for buying a sh*t filter, a huge cable bill, and the desire to pound the bastard who conned him into buying the filter. Of course, the guy can never admit it to his cable company or else...
LOL. Either way the consumer loses. So steer clear of the "digital cable filters"!!!"
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