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Comcast Reportedly Agrees To Buy Time Warner Cable For $45 Billion

A month after Time Warner Cable laughed off Charter’s $37 billion merger offer, the cable company has reportedly reached a $45 billion deal with Comcast that would make its nearly 15 million customers permanent citizens of Kabletown.

Citing the always-reliable “people familiar with the situation,” the Wall Street Journal reports that the deal will be officially announced in the morning.

Of course, just because two of the most-hated cable and Internet providers in the country have agreed to get hitched doesn’t mean it will ultimately happen. The merger would need pass regulatory muster with both the Justice Dept.’s antitrust folks and the FCC.

Back in 2010, the regulators took a lot of heat when they signed off on Comcast’s acquisition of NBC, allowing the nation’s cable company to purchase one of its largest broadcasters and content producers.

Almost immediately following that approval, then-FCC commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker fled her government gig to accept a job… at Comcast, as Senior Vice President of Government Affairs.

In the years since, the FCC has been more skeptical of major mergers in already uncompetitive markets. First, both it and the DOJ shut down AT&T’s attempted acquisition of T-Mobile USA, and more recently has reportedly warned Sprint leadership that it probably wouldn’t approve that company’s planned bid to buy T-Mobile.

The big question is whether or not the regulators will view a Comcast/TWC merger as hurting competition.

On the one hand, it would mean the removal from the marketplace of the second-largest terrestrial cable provider (DirecTV has significantly more satellite TV subscribers, but does not really compete with TWC and Comcast for Internet service).

On the other side of the argument, there is little to no overlap of TWC and Comcast markets, as most consumers have no option to choose between the two providers for service. So it would mean that affected consumers would go from have no choice… to still having no choice.

One likely important factor that would not be as consumer-facing but would still have a huge impact on consumers is the leverage that a combined Comcast/TWC would have with regard to bandwidth. With the recent removal of net neutrality regulations, Internet service providers have the ability to charge whatever they want to — or to block or slow down traffic for — online content providers.

As part of the Comcast/NBC deal, the company agreed to abide by net neutrality rules through 2018, but after that it will be able to leverage its size and customer base to charge premiums to competing content providers like Netflix and Amazon while simultaneously giving priority access to its own content.

It will be months until the review process begins in earnest, but we’ll be keeping an eye on this story as it develops.

by Chris Morran via Consumerist

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Police: Headphone Thieves Dressed Up As Target Workers, Choked Employee

(me and the sysop)

If you saw someone at Target wearing a red shirt and khakis, would you pay attention to what they were carrying? Probably not, since they’d just appear to be hard-working employees. According to police, that’s how two men were able to infiltrate a Colorado Target store, steal pricey headphones, and escape through an emergency exit.

The planning and execution of this heist were actually rather impressive. The pair clearly passed as Target employees. They asked a real employee to unlock the display case containing Beats headphones, then kept him in a chokehold until he lost consciousness. (That employee had no lasting injuries.) With him out of the way, they took several pairs of headphones, which are sell for hundreds of dollars each. Who would question two employees carrying merchandise around the store?

They might question employees heading out the emergency exit and into a waiting car, though.

Sophisticated’ Robbers Dress Like Target Employees, Choke Worker [CBS Denver]

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist

The FBI Reminds You That The Supermodel Wooing You Online May Just Be A Scammer

I’m pretty sure I sent this woman $60 and a bus ticket back in 2003. (ShotBySusan)

So that woman who began writing to you the other day — you know, the one whose photos look suspiciously like she’s a member of the Russian Ladies Curling team? The FBI says she might not be the leggy answer to your romantic dreams, but may just be looking to scam you out of your cash.

In the spirit of the upcoming why am I still single? Nobody loves me Valentine’s Day celebrations, the wet blankets at the FBI issued a reminder to the public that the people you find online are not always who they claim to be, and we don’t just mean the ones who post their roommates’ photos instead of their own.

“Here’s how the scam usually works,” writes the FBI in its best tough-love tone. “You’re contacted online by someone who appears interested in you. He or she may have a profile you can read or a picture that is e-mailed to you. For weeks, even months, you may chat back and forth with one another, forming a connection. You may even be sent flowers or other gifts.”

Sounds good so far; certainly better than most of my relationships.

“But ultimately, it’s going to happen,” continue the feds, their voice deepening with gravitas. “Your new-found ‘friend’ is going to ask you for money.”

Okay, my friends ask me for money all the time. I don’t understand why, as I’ve got less cash than a retired NFL player, but they do. Aren’t friends supposed to help friends in need?

The FBI all but dares you to send this online entity that initial bit of money, warning, “rest assured the requests won’t stop there. There will be more hardships that only you can help alleviate with your financial gifts.”

Since this wallet-draining virtual paramour is outside of the U.S., he or she may also send you checks to cash, may ask you to forward a package.

This all sounds like things I’ve done for actual flesh-and-blood girlfriends over the years. Is the FBI telling me they were just scamming me the entire time?

Quoth the agency:

“So what really happened? You were targeted by criminals, probably based on personal information you uploaded on dating or social media sites. The pictures you were sent were most likely phony lifted from other websites. The profiles were fake as well, carefully crafted to match your interests.”

In addition to losing your money to someone who had no intention of ever visiting you, you may also have unknowingly taken part in a money laundering scheme by cashing phony checks and sending the money overseas and by shipping stolen merchandise (the forwarded package).

Any guy (this seems to happen to men with much more frequency) who has spent more than a day on Match.com has invariably been hit up with one form of this scam in which a woman will express some level of interest, but will almost immediately request that you move your back-and-forth off the site to e-mail or to another social networking site.

In some cases it’s just so that the paper trail is harder to trace for when the scammer hits the victim up for money, but the FBI warns of a particular variation of the ruse wherein the scammer takes their chat transcripts and post them to yet another website for everyone to see. The scammer then demands money in exchange for removing the content.

The FBI says that, in addition to local law enforcement, victims of online scams like this should file a complaint with the Bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.

Finally, here are the FBI’s protips on how to suss out whether that sexy man or woman wooing you online is a scammer or just a future disappointment:

Your online “date” may only be interested in your money if he or she:

•Presses you to leave the dating website you met through and to communicate using personal e-mail or instant messaging;

•Professes instant feelings of love;

•Sends you a photograph of himself or herself that looks like something from a glamour magazine;

•Claims to be from the U.S. and is traveling or working overseas;

•Makes plans to visit you but is then unable to do so because of a tragic event; or

•Asks for money for a variety of reasons (travel, medical emergencies, hotel bills, hospitals bills for child or other relative, visas or other official documents, losses from a financial setback or crime victimization).

•One way to steer clear of these criminals all together is to stick to online dating websites with nationally known reputations.

We take issue with that last one as we’ve found that, while some dating sites are better at filtering out scammers than others, all of them are still constantly bombarded by fakers looking to cash in.

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by Chris Morran via Consumerist

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