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Torrent Finder Scam Story About Homeland Security Seizure

         

AussieWebmaster

9:22 pm on Nov 27, 2010 (gmt 0)

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hey guys thought you would find this scam interesting - got initial world wide coverage on major newspapers and even tv and mulilingual and countries
[blog.searchenginewatch.com...]

[edited by: tedster at 2:21 am (utc) on Nov 28, 2010]
[edit reason] fixed the link [/edit]

tedster

9:42 pm on Nov 27, 2010 (gmt 0)

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There's a related thread on the topic here: Domain Name Seizures by Homeland Security [webmasterworld.com]

And yes, it does appear to be a scam.

graeme_p

11:13 am on Nov 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Not anymore it does not.

AussieWebmaster

12:24 pm on Nov 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

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took it down till I could verify more details but seems a scam story

graeme_p

3:30 am on Nov 29, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Ah, the seizure of this particular site is a hoax, but there have been lots of actual site seizures.

AussieWebmaster

4:33 am on Nov 29, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I am back to it being a scam but am waiting till tomorrow to do some calls to confirm things and then will put the article up again