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'Free Broadband' Scam Exposed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the desire-transcends-reason dept.

dslknowitall writes: "It appears that http://www.dslreports.com is first on the crime scene regarding DSLmonster.com's scam to offer free broadband access for the price of only two spam's a day (remember winfire, anyone?). "If you remember back on December 18th we raised the warning flag concerning a DSL provider known as DSLMonster.com, who's business stank of illegitimacy. With a website made up of plagiarized portions of other providers terms of service, and a qualification system that claimed it could provide service to locations like "the dark side of the moon", it appeared to be a scam waiting to happen." Not only a well written piece but lots o' backgroud too!"

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  1. Perhaps they'd use my Cable ISP by tcd004 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not@home

    tcd004

  2. Oh nos!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    We can't get something for free??? We have to pay for things??? This is anti-open source! I refuse to believe it!!

  3. SPAM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ahhh yet again we see the wonders of spam, but I would surely apply for broadband if they could promiss me that I would only get two spam emails pr day ;)

  4. at what point did someone get a clue?? by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would think if I was an employee at this company, I'd start to wonder just when we were going to start installing anything.. for pete's sake, you can't tell me the employees didn't have a clue what was going on, unless of course they were too busy bidding on figurines at eBay, and watching their Enron stock plummet....

  5. Where do I sign up? by ArcadeNut · · Score: 5, Funny

    access for the price of only two spam's a day

    I want to lower my SPAM to only two a day! Where can I get that kind of service?

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    1. Re:Where do I sign up? by ProfMoriarty · · Score: 2, Funny
      NO NO NO ... you don't get it ... it's a PRICE of two spams ... so you need to give them two spams a day, in exchange for Free Broadband ...

      Otherwise, you'll be getting Free Broadband AND two spams ... and what do they get? Nothing.

      Got it?

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  6. Bad business plan by Animats · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they'd provided service to 10% of their customers, and stalled the others, they could have kept this scam going for years. It would be hard to distinguish that approach from "legitimate" DSL providers.

  7. This gives me an Idea! by flerchin · · Score: 1, Funny


    I'll create a new product called RAD-DSL, you can find information about it at our "corporate" geocities website, most of the content I'll copy from @home or something similar. I'll have a form for ppl to send me $100 (the actual amount doesn't matter) for their new RAD-DSL FM radio via credit card. (Trust us, anywhere you can get FM radio reception, you can get our "service") I'd only need about 1,000 customers with $1k credit limits to rip-off a cool million. Then, off to the carribean for me!

    /joke

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  8. Two spams a day... by Dead_Smiley · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can they garauntee this? I pay for my current ISP and get a lot more spam than that. This sounds tempting...

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  9. Re:The old saying is true. by JordoCrouse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except that you're reading this for free on Slashdot, run on open source software used for free, on a browser you didn't pay for (unless you use opera), ...

    I was going to reply and agree with you, but then Mozilla seg faulted....

    I guess I did get what I paid for.... :)

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