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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. Where does this come from? by Christianfreak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    regarding DSLmonster.com's scam to offer free broadband access for the price of only two spam's a day

    What a second. The linked article says that customers were double and triple billed. What did they get 4-6 spams instead of 2? Or is this statement wrong and there was a cost for the service?

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  3. 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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  4. 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.