wdc@athena.mit.edu (Bill Cattey) (05/07/91)
I received a call from what I now know to be American Consumer Services. I would like to do anything I can to get them shut down. Even though what they are doing may well be perfectly within the letter of the law, it is a sleazy scam and I'd like to purge the world of such abuse. I think that John Palmer and Robert Woodhead are overreacting to Randy Borow's posting. I suspect that if I did a little digging, I, a non-employee, could obtain the very same information he did. (I might have to tell a lie almost as bad as the one that our telemarketers tell when they say the've already called me when they have not.) I think that Mr. Borow has unfortunately exposed himself to undue risk. The information he gives us doesn't really add to the story, and it has the potential for getting him in trouble for exposing what may be private records. I think the REAL tragedy will be if Mr. Borow is prosecuted (persecuted?) while the American Consumer Services continue to attempt to dupe the unsuspecting consumers. Let us please discuss legal and reasonable ways to help shut down American Consumer Services, and leave Mr. Borow alone after his possible breach of trust in his enthusiasm for trying to help nail them. Bill Cattey