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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: ricercar on Sat, 25 September 2010, 15:13:25
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anyone else get this offer for a free steam game?
supposed to be from steam + nvidia (http://slizone.com), but i'm wary of typing a steam id into a foreign site.
(http://gadzikowski.com/images/nv30/games.png) (http://steampowered.surge8.com)
http://steampowered.surge8.com
Good for 24 hours. I own none of these games. I'm thinking Counterstrike Source.
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I didn't and I've had Steam running all day. I'd be wary too...isn't there something in their agreement about not sharing your information with 3rd party vendors?
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surge8 = free hosting site.
24 hour window = quick, act now without thinking.
http://slizone.com is wrong address, should have www in it.
Looks bad.
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report it as a phishing site
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Yep, can see from adress, it should be xxx.Steampowered.com and not steampowered.xxx.com to be legit. Clear phising to me...
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why do people fall for this ****
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You must admit this one has an authentic look and feel. Most that I've seen are laughable by comparison.
Plus, there are plenty of legitimate people on the internet who send you links to domain names different to their main one. I think Amazon have done that to me. I never follow the links. But when respectable companies do that to you, how can you tell the honest people from the conmen?
EDIT> Specific example. I have an email from Argos, a popular chain of UK stores whose website is www.argos.co.uk. The email is full of links to www.email-argos.co.uk. I believe the email is legitimate, but I wouldn't dream of using the links on principle, because the site is not the same one that I know for certain is theirs.
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LOL @ ppl that fall for this.
my partner did got his account jacked...