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COL · 25-08-2006, 12:01

i seen a progamme on tv last week, where people who threw there computers away on places like the tip an alike.
there computers ended up in nigeria where the were broken down and sold on again.
there were gangs that bought the drives and took personell infomation off them, and then used this infomation to get loans and stuff.
its was interesting and shocking to the amount of money they could make by this.
it was around 15 pounds for 10 hard drives an they made somethimg stupid like 10,000 per drive on average, some were into the million figures

25-08-2006, 12:01	#11
COL Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 142	Re: Disposing of hard drives i seen a progamme on tv last week, where people who threw there computers away on places like the tip an alike. there computers ended up in nigeria where the were broken down and sold on again. there were gangs that bought the drives and took personell infomation off them, and then used this infomation to get loans and stuff. its was interesting and shocking to the amount of money they could make by this. it was around 15 pounds for 10 hard drives an they made somethimg stupid like 10,000 per drive on average, some were into the million figures