I was directed towards this site, which claims that as of October 1st it will be able to give everyone broadband speeds through a 56k moden and people with adsl etc. will be able to download 4 times faster. The price for this service? apparently absolutely nothing
Does this sound like a load of horse-shit? I've applied for information etc. trying to find out, and it looks like a fairly reputable company and they haven't asked for any banking/financial details, so as far as I can see the only way they'd be able to make any money from it would be to sell my e-mail address on, but that doesn't quite seem worth the effort to me.
I'm sure someone will be able to tell if it is legit or not, but i'm sure it will be as it does look too good to be true.
[ 11.08.2004, 10:53: Message edited by: SilverGinger5 ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
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You will never see another dead, blank or irrelevant page ever again and if you do, we will pay you £500 GBP*.
You will NOT get another spam email EVER, but if you do we will pay you £100 GBP* in compensation.
You are guaranteed to get a minimum connection speed of 2MB with 100% uptime. If we fail to meet either or both we will pay you £500 GBP* per failure.
YOU will NEVER receive a virus or worm in your email inbox again as we operate up to the millisecond software to stop the same, but if you do get one we will pay you £500 GBP* compensation.
JUICE is able to block every porn and adult site on the Internet if you choose to filter it and if we fail you we will pay you £200 GBP* per reported instance. That's how confident JUICE is.
We can STOP your child from chatting to people who pretend to be children in chat rooms by using amazing breakthrough IP filtration and parenthesis technology.
From what I've read so far, it sounds rather... unlikely.
quote: Would you like to earn well over £10, 000 GBP a month? If you would like to give away JUICE's incredible service start referring users to JUICE and we'll pay you lot's of money.
Hmm... if they'll pay me lot's of money, then perhaps it's worth a go!
[ 11.08.2004, 11:05: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Astromariner (Member # 446) on :
This makes me think it's one of those dodge-a-rama pyramid selling schemes. ie: Avoid like plague.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Parenthesis technology? Like brackets and shit?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Like brackets and shit?
...only without the brackets.
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
In a word, impossible.
Scam, fake, data mining, and a few others are applicable too.
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
Maybe they print out and deliver the whole internet to you in leatherbound volumes. Your search engine is a small man named Pepin, who shuffles off and retrieves the appropriate sections as you request them.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
But, as a mainstream site owner selling bicycles, I'm very tempted.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: It's pretty scary how easily the public can be duped by a professional looking website.
I know. Makes me wonder if I'm crazy, stupid or both for not abandoning my present semi-legitimate career path in favor of founding www.nigerianroyalmoneyforyou.com. Posted by turbo (Member # 593) on :
Those Nigerians are really slow. I've replied to loads of emails from the wives of murdered Nigerians and sent them my bank account details, but it must take a really long time to trasfer those millions all the way from Nigeria to my bank account.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
I ran a quick google search on their address and I think its one of these rentable postal addresses, as there seem to be hundreds of companies located at this one address.
Con most definately - who's gonna tell watchdog?
Posted by turbo (Member # 593) on :
I got another one of those emails today. It was sent from an Italian email address by someone with a very English name. I had allegedly won US$2.5 million in a German lottery. It was signed by the chairman of the Afro-Asian lottery council. How did I win this? My Dutch email address had been linked to the winning numbers! Oh yes!
How much less credible can they make these things...?? Posted by squirrelandgman (Member # 201) on :
Send me a tenner and I will tell you.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Interestingly, that site has been temporarily closed due to 'Security enhancements' and version 3.0 will be much better.
SUggestions on how they are going to improve such a pretty, yet pretty obvious con?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: Interestingly, that site has been temporarily closed due to 'Security enhancements' and version 3.0 will be much better.
* Read this 292 page thread on a scam forum if you're bored enough. It's quite funny watching the believers slowly piecing it together - and then disappearing!