So I received a call from someone claiming to be with Quickbooks and ready to help from a 310 area code with Beverly Hills caller id. I explained the situation and that I had been directed to ask the Data Service to check the file.  After being on hold for 5-7 minutes he said he checked with the Data Service team and they do not deal with condense issues and instead he was going to contact a Pro Advisor to call me from a 3rd party.  The Pro Advisor called from a '315' area code claiming to have been referred by Quickbooks.  Both voices were foreign, the call quality in each was not good.  The pro advisor offered service for $1649.99 plus taxes and said they would truncate the file and said it would 2-3 hours.  I asked questions about how balances forward would work and he said he needed to get his tech on the phone (all the time asking me to commit).  I asked for a website and the one he gave matched the 315 area code but offers accounting services, not quickbooks file services.  I told him I understand what he's trying to do and said not interested and hung up. 

Clearly this was a setup for a scam.  The fact the scammers are scraping these forums and preying on people, and Intuit doesn't seem to have a better secure community interface is yet another reason my confidence with Quickbooks is shattered.