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Scam? Or no Scam?

Post by Gill » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:01 am

Check out this site

http://www.ezlaptop.com

and tell me if you think it is a scam. Its luring me in and I wat to know so I don't get screwed. Be honest people.... thx :D

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Post by GM » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:03 am

It's a Pyramid Scheme system. Therefore, it's a scam.
Feel free to correct my grammar errors. I'm learning english so any help is welcome... I think :shifty:
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Post by CorruptTiki » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:05 am

And the adds that they send you only sell for $13.95., I might be crazy, but the amount of people buying the adds would have to be impossibly high for them to be able to pay off at all.
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Post by Teranfirbt » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:06 am

10 bucks says you cant use any freemail services.
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Post by Railith » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:09 am

That be a scam.
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Post by edge » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:22 am

That's definitly a scam, I too was lured by this particular scam a while back and checked into it prety thoroughly. There are tons of advertising schemes like this that look like it's a good deal. General rule for the internet (and life): If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. :wink:
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Post by Gill » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:29 am

Heh thx guys, who knows, you probably saved me ^_^
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Post by Deacon » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:55 am

Pyramid scheme? No, it's not that. They're trying to force-feed clicks for advertisers so as to get more money for themselves. They hope you'll be diligent and determined with a laptop as a prize. Whether they'll actually deliver the laptop...who knows? How many "credits" (clicks on ads) does it take to earn that laptop, even if they did? They don't say. So yeah, I don't think I'd sign up with them. They're just going to sell your information to as many people as they can get to buy it, so...
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Post by TopCat » Wed Feb 18, 2004 4:22 am

I heard only like 3 people ever got that laptop. Or was that from some other site simlar to this? Hmm.
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Post by Infin8Cyn » Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:16 am

GM,
Pyramids schemes aren't scams, they're flat out illegal.

EzLaptop.com has strikingly little information in it's DNS Records:
Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: EZLAPTOP.COM

Domain servers in listed order:
ZN1.LUCIDITYHOSTING.COM
ZN2.LUCIDITYHOSTING.COM
ZN3.LUCIDITYHOSTING.COM

For complete domain details go to:
http://whois.godaddy.com
However, we find this on their page:
Developed by OffshoreDevelopers.net
Now, we all know that if you live in Georgia, you don't often contract to Jamaica. So, roughtly, wherever "OffshoreDevelopers.net" is, is where EzLaptop.com is...

Our OffshoreDevelopers.net DNS pulls up:
*edit*The gentleman who owned this domain asked if I would remove his personal information. ~Liz
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So, you tell me. Do you think it's a scam?
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Post by Mew Guy » Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:23 am

If pyramid schemes were scams, they wouldn't be illegal.

Scam artists look for a loophole in the law before they start a scam.
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Post by lordsith » Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:55 am

Infin8Cyn, you rock my world.
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Post by rawkeye » Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:20 am

[quote="lordsith";p="282314"]Infin8Cyn, you rock my world.[/quote]

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Post by BadMonkey » Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:53 am

Mew, they started off *legal*, that they were made illegal doesnt change the fact Mew, they're scams, illegal or no, they fool the guilble into parting with thier money for nothing. I read in a paper recently that for a pyramid scheme to work, it'd require a world population of 10 billion or something.
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Post by Mo0 » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:28 pm

[quote="BadMonkey";p="282442"]Mew, they started off *legal*, that they were made illegal doesnt change the fact Mew, they're scams, illegal or no, they fool the guilble into parting with thier money for nothing. I read in a paper recently that for a pyramid scheme to work, it'd require a world population of 10 billion or something.[/quote]AND everyone would have to speak the same language AND have the entry fee AND be willing to participate.
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