A friend tells me that he was on his way to FARCEBOOK, when, apparently, his ISP interrupted. "Take a moment to fill in our survey. You will win a prize!"
Oh. Didn't know Time Warner was in the habit of interrupting a search. Is that ethical? Hmm. Well, they ARE offering free gifts.
After 8 easy questions ("Do you like Time Warner, yes or no, have you had a problem in the past six months, yes or no, etc...") up came the BIG GIFT page.
ALARM...ALARM...ALARM.
Why would Time Warner be offering shoddy "gifts" like fake steroids and bogus weight loss drugs?
And why do the "gifts" require paying postage and handling?
Ah. The scumbags who somehow hijacked my friend's browser, impersonating Time Warner, and who call themselves CONSUMERFEEDBACKSITE have a little bit of fine print at the bottom of the page.
It says they are not really Time Warner.
Oh. Ha ha. Ho ho. Hee Hee.
That disclaimer is enough to keep Time Warner's lawyers at bay. Besides, why should Time Warner want to protect their customers by stopping someone from hijacking their Internet searching and wasting time with a "pfishing spoof?"
Let the customer beware. These monkeys are not Time Warner they're just USING the name. They just happen to be doing a "survey" and it's "about" Time Warner.
If you're stupid enough to pay for the postage on tiny "trial product" sized bottles of garbage that cost 10 cents to make, you are also stupid enough to have automatically "enrolled in a rebill membership program," and no doubt gotten your name, address, credit card, etc. added to the sucker list they sell to other con artists.
Who doesn't want the fun of changing passwords or contacting credit card companies and discovering "you were billed $25 a day for your membership and golly, we can't and won't reverse this. YOU are OUT your MONEY."
A quick Google shows varying reports on these scammers. One site says they make $11 a day (how is this calculated) and are run by spics in Panama. (Well, I added "spics," only because I don't normally use terms like "wetback shits," "drug-addled greasy taco-fuckers" and "pig-faced homely twat-o's"). Although to be fair, they probably aren't spics at all, but psycho Muslims following Allah's preachings that it's ok to steal, deal drugs, con people, rape or murder as long as the ultimate goal is to remove all Christians, Hindus, Jews and Buddhists and Atheists from the planet.
Another site that checks for "scammers" has "no information" on them. And another 20 or more sites simply parrot everybody else's information, which is almost nothing.
Oh well. "It's whack-a-mole. We can't do anything. We're busy. Internet laws favor crooks. Just be happy with your free porn and bootlegs and pirated movies and music, and accept PFISHING and SPOOFING and identity theft and people suddenly having the ability to interrupt your searches and bring you to a website to con you. Oh, and don't be surprised if somebody can activate your computer camera and spy on you, count your keystrokes and steal your password, and can I interest you in spending $30 a month on security programs that need constant updating??
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