Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Mike Dawe wrote:
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I have come across another, even more convincing scam. It is also
another *google* sponsored link.
Type openoffice into Google's search engine and you will get both the
filechampion.com scam and this (both are at the top of the first page):
<http://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=CNltl38KsSfveFZTgkAWAsJnyCcy2gEXeqLroCvbe2DwIABACKAJQvd675Pv_____AWCl-JGAkAGgAZ6w7fYDyAEBqQIZlbzVMP2pPqoEE0_Qa7WsKtVCCYK1SRZpoZWuf48&sig=AGiWqtzJxx2FO-3G1kuXvHLW_cqOtiHKDg&q=http://openoffice.org-2009.com/index.asp%3Faff%3D101%26camp%3Dgg_oo_au%26se%3Dgoogle>
Sorry for the long link - it takes you to this evil scam page:
<http://openoffice.org-2009.com/index.asp?aff=101&camp=gg_oo_au&se=google>
This one has already picked up that I'm in Australia (so it can charge
me for OpenOffice in Aussie dollars I guess).
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I stopped using Google when they dropped their pants and bent over for
the Chinese government. I use a search engine called Icerocket. When I
enter "openoffice" or "open office" I don't get the scam sites at all.
Just legitimate Ooo sites or sites linking to them with no mention of
payment. No "sponsored" links. Yet another reason not to use Google.
I just tried a search in parallel for OOo in both icerocket (selecting
the web search option) and google. The results page were identical line
for line at least the first page was. I do like the look and feel and
selective search filtering by options, whereas a google search can be
overwhelming in that it includes everything.
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