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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. 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....

  4. 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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  5. 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.

  6. 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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  7. 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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