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MS Promotion Site Flagged By MS Anti-Phishing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-good-to-be-true dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:On a related topic.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft has been informed of you evil intensions...

  2. Re:IE7 declares... by MorderVonAllem · · Score: 0, Troll

    sure did when i first installed vista and went to get firefox. i've since disabled it. (although it could have just been warning me about phishing scams. it was about a month ago)

  3. Editors patronising the readers by philml · · Score: 0, Troll

    My first thought is... this is a rubbish story, not worth broadcasting. An amusing accident, nothing more.

    My second thought is... what patronising editors to think it's worth posting, to get us commenting.

  4. Re:Microsoft mistake lead to office price cut by JimDaGeek · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would like to know what Microsoft shill has modded you as "Flamebait". Seriously. I guess Microsoft pays some of their employees to go through the top technical sites to try to "evangelize" or something. What a shame.

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