'Free Broadband' Scam Exposed

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!"

Comments

Perhaps they'd use my Cable ISP

[tcd004]

Not@home

tcd004

at what point did someone get a clue??

[teamhasnoi]

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....

Where do I sign up?

[ArcadeNut]

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?

Bad business plan

[Animats]

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.

Two spams a day...

[Dead_Smiley]

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