POLICE have identified another 89 dud computers in a scam in which over 700 computers with pirated software worth R11m were sold to the Mpumalanga government. Police are investigating the Pretoria-based company Keystone Information Systems in connection with selling the computers to the province’s departments of education, health and finance. Keystone bought defective computers cheaply, mislabeled them and then tried to pass them off as more expensive computers. The education department bought 347 computers, while the department of health bought 400 computers and the department of finance bought about five laptop computers. – African Eye News Service
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