UKNM: fw: webtv viewer scam?

[tim ireland]

saw this post in usenet and thought it pertinent to current discussions

about domain name 'landgrabbers'.


tim ireland

senior copywriter, designercity (www.designercity.com)

http://www.buymybook.co.uk/



----- original message -----

from: max bone <

maxmaxmaxmax [dot] freeserve [dot] co [dot] uk

>

newsgroups: uk.net.web.authoring

sent: 20 january 2000 10:49

subject: webtv viewer



 >

 > i was completing some checks on a web site the other day using the

 > downloadable web tv viewer, and it just so happens i was scrutinising

 > the logs from the same web site this morning, when i suddenly noticed

 > that all of my test search scripts when using the viewer, were being

 > redirected through www.restart.com, a quick visit to this url redirects

 > you to ces marketing - a so called domain name registration company...

 >

 > needless to say i won't be using the webtv viewer again... my projects

 > are confidential, and i'd hate for pre-project clues to fall into such a

 > companies hands... they could register the domain... or even supply

 > information to other companies on the information contained within the

 > cgi...

 >

 > now i wonder where i should go to expose this little scam...?

 > --

 > max bone 



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