So an I.T. person is hired by an out of state company to receive a bunch of laptops, check to make sure they work and run the needed software and then deliver/setup said laptops in a conference room. During this time the I.T. person knows something in fishy and checked the Quickbooks licenses, the Microsoft Windows XP and the Microsoft Office software only to find that all 6 laptops are using the same key. Each of these keys is for SINGLE USE, none of them are multi-seat keys.
Said I.T. person also caught wind from Attendees at the "Quickbooks Training Class" that the entire thing is a semi-scam. None of the people were provided with a useable laptop (Unless you count a HIGHLY damaged Dell C400), with no battery, damaged screen and failing hard drives (and cracked cases with failing or almost no hinges). The person teaching the course is a local that was asked to teach in about 2 days before the class. The venue was changed 3 times, none of which were paid, and the I.T. person just barely managed to get paid, probably because they were hoping he would so kindly ship (on his dime) their equipment to the next point of interest.
So... my question is, what are the legal requirements/obligations for said I.T. person? Hold onto the piles of junk and notify Intuit and Microsoft... or just leave them at the hotel where the event happened? Please keep in mind that research had been done on said dead beats and it was revealed that they have a history of fraud and were sued in Orange County, as well as on the FCCs list for fax spam (wow, didn't even know they had a list for that!)