MS Promotion Site Flagged By MS Anti-Phishing

Stony Stevenson writes "Microsoft has launched a marketing campaign that lets any student at an Australian university buy the Ultimate edition of Office 2007, usual price $1,150, for only $75 — a discount of about 93%. But when students go to the promotion site, Microsoft Live OneCare pops up a warning that the site may be a phishing scam. The warning reads: 'Phishing filter has determined this might be a phishing website. We recommend that you do not give any of your information to such websites. Phishing websites impersonate trustworthy websites for the purpose of obtaining your personal or financial information.'"

Comments

What's the problem

[Zygamorph]

As far as I can see OneCare is correct. The site in question is gathering personal information for neferious reasons, unless of course you think installing MS products is a Good Thing TM

Re:This shows it's working

[Archangel Michael]

"A $1200 product being sold for $75 is probably either a) not a $1200 product, or b) a scam,"

a) is true with Microsoft Products
b) is also true because anything from Microsoft is a scam.

Therefore, your base choice is a false dichotomy, a logical fallacy. The conclusion "so this seems to have worked well." therefore isn't proven true. More than likely the product (antiphishing) is a scam, along with all their other products.

Re:Bill Gates Cyborg Icon

[JimDaGeek]

Huh? Are you retarded? Have you ever given money to charity? If you are giving a large sum of money, you just stipulate that it is only on the condition of that you remain anonymous. It is that simple.

I am not talking about giving away $100, $500 or even $1,000. When you plan to give a large sum to a charity, the top-brass of that charity gets involved. All you have to do is ask to remain anonymous.