‘I locked him out’: Cyber security contractor locks a client out of their computer system after they refuse to pay an invoice, teaching them a lesson about weaseling out of their end of the deal

Contractors seem to always get burned when it comes to payday. My dad is a general contractor and despite working for luxury clients whose remodel budgets almost always exceed $10 million, they somehow always think of new excuses to avoid paying for $1,000 invoices and petty cash deals. When it comes to closing out a payment that's a drop in the bucket, why do customers get so stingy? 

The job is done, now you have to pay. 

That's why a lot of contractors refuse to start work until payment has been received, but in some cases that's unavoidable. This cyber security expert in our next story had a client that he believed was good for their cash, until he realized on payday that they were just as cheap and unreliable as Scrooge McDuck. 

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