ISP Support Agent Used Deception to Lock Customer Into Contract
A Comcast customer seeking connection help was misled by a support agent who promised a bill reduction while actually obtaining contract agreement, then disconnected. This reflects a specific deceptive sales practice rather than a systemic software-addressable problem.
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