HP repair tech fraudulent repairs

[Ceceme]

Just had an HP repair agent ask me to pay 318 because we did not know the bios password on a brand new computer. No one even knew how to set a bios password so I don't know how it came to be. He insisted I'd need to pay 318 on a warrantied item to get a new bios chip or whatever it's called.

Luckily I was working in conjunction with Costco concierge. This scammer should be fired and arrested for fraud. 

I quickly googled the issue and you can reset bios without the password fairly simply and quickly and it requires zero new parts.

I firmly believe there wasn't ever a password and he was just scamming me to try to charge for unnecessary uncovered repairs.

We gave him all our windows passwords for the record but it was moot seeing as the machine had already been reset prior to being shipped in. The reason we sent this few months old computer back was we kept getting blue and grey screens. This person's name is [Personal info removed] and I plan on reporting HP and this individual to the Federal Consumer Complaints Dept.

[sandytechy20]

@Ceceme

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