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  • Tarian
    Tarian Posts: 54 Forumite
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    It doesn't help that the new MSE "skin" looks a bit "fake" - but that's a result of following the recent fad for re-designing websites to look minimalist.

    Surely "Fisher Price" style "First Websites" with large, monotone panels/slabs and white space are easier to copy ?

    Minimalism might please arty types, but lack of detail, colour, borders, rounded buttons, shading etc looks lazy and unsophisticated.

    NatWest and RBS customers said that their website redesigns look "fake" - and one can see why.
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  • Nick_C
    Nick_C Posts: 7,459 Forumite
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    edited 15 November 2015 at 1:32AM
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    I think this site is fake. It's a poor imitation of the MSE forums that I used to know.
  • Former_MSE_Helen
    Former_MSE_Helen Posts: 2,382 Forumite
    edited 24 November 2015 at 6:23PM
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    Some have voiced concerns about an unknown transaction being taken by a firm they wrongly believe to be MSE...
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  • TrustyOven
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    MSE_Helen wrote: »
    Some have voiced concerns about an unknown transaction being taken by a firm they wrongly believe to be MSE...

    How??
    The other website doesn't even look like MSE and doesn't even have the same name...
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  • fermi
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    Not a clone, but at the very least scraping the forum's content for their own ends,

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  • StaffsSW
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    It's terrible when somebody copies your hard work and passes it off as their own.

    I can't imagine that MSE or Martin would ever condone such activity.
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  • Tiggeronlytig
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    Hi

    Found this link on Facebook. Looks like you are endorsing this scheme? I think its a fake. Please advise.

    Can't post the link because I'm new !!!!!!!!!!

    Which links to this website

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    Again I can't post the link because I'm new.

    The links goes to an exact copy on the MSE forum endorsing the scheme.

    Anyway looks like a money making scheme being endorsed by Martin and MSE forum. Thought you should know a get the advert removed from Facebook.
  • Reaper
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    Blantant ad scam
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    edited 17 January 2018 at 1:53PM
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