Girlfriend had a six year old Roku box. Got a notice from Roku that it would no longer be supported and they offered a replacement for half price. She let the exchange date expire so thought it was best to buy one of those $120 TCL 32" smart TV's from Wally World to replace her 24 incher.
We were walking out on the parking lot and an elderly couple (I'm probably older) approached us and asked us if we were aware of the sixty dollar Roku licensing fee. They assured us that it would have to be paid.
I said "yeah, sure", but took about a minute to Google "Roku licensing fee scam", and as I suspected, all sorts of hits came up. I looked at the lot trying to see them and warn them to contact their credit card company to flip the purchase and cancel their card, but they were long gone.
Question: Has anyone ever been approached about paying their one time Roku licensing fee? Did the bad guys just spam a hundred thousand people hoping that someone had just bought a Roku? Are their crooks in the store or at Roku who turn purchase info in?
There's two kinds of geezers, cynical questioning geezers (like me), and sucker geezers (like them, and I'm afraid my girlfriend). When I was a boy in rural South Dakota it was rumored that Hobos would put marks on trees in people's front yards indicating that a sucker lived in the house. I'm wondering if falling for this idiotic scam will make them future victims when the word gets out.
We were walking out on the parking lot and an elderly couple (I'm probably older) approached us and asked us if we were aware of the sixty dollar Roku licensing fee. They assured us that it would have to be paid.
I said "yeah, sure", but took about a minute to Google "Roku licensing fee scam", and as I suspected, all sorts of hits came up. I looked at the lot trying to see them and warn them to contact their credit card company to flip the purchase and cancel their card, but they were long gone.
Question: Has anyone ever been approached about paying their one time Roku licensing fee? Did the bad guys just spam a hundred thousand people hoping that someone had just bought a Roku? Are their crooks in the store or at Roku who turn purchase info in?
There's two kinds of geezers, cynical questioning geezers (like me), and sucker geezers (like them, and I'm afraid my girlfriend). When I was a boy in rural South Dakota it was rumored that Hobos would put marks on trees in people's front yards indicating that a sucker lived in the house. I'm wondering if falling for this idiotic scam will make them future victims when the word gets out.
