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The "3 million Free Smiley T-shirts for signing up to a facebook group" scam
Browntoa
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this got posted yesterday on freebies but a little digging showed that :_
1)the email address given is for a domain that does not exist ,thealamoclothing.com , see here
http://whois.domaintools.com/thealamoclothing.com
2) the form you have to fill out
http://smileyshirt.110mb.com/
is not only hosted on free web space
www.110mb.com
so I suspect it is purely for harvesting of personal details ( they keep updating the free web site link as it keeps getting reported and taken down)
3) the address given on the facebook page does not exist
4) if you google the Alamo Clothing company nothing comes up (if you can afford to give away 3 million T-shirts then you should be a BIG company ??) apart from a few posts about the facebook page
http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=%22The+Alamo+Clothing+Company%22&meta=lr%3D&aq=f&oq=
avoid signing up !!
1)the email address given is for a domain that does not exist ,thealamoclothing.com , see here
http://whois.domaintools.com/thealamoclothing.com
2) the form you have to fill out
http://smileyshirt.110mb.com/
is not only hosted on free web space
www.110mb.com
so I suspect it is purely for harvesting of personal details ( they keep updating the free web site link as it keeps getting reported and taken down)
3) the address given on the facebook page does not exist
4) if you google the Alamo Clothing company nothing comes up (if you can afford to give away 3 million T-shirts then you should be a BIG company ??) apart from a few posts about the facebook page
http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=%22The+Alamo+Clothing+Company%22&meta=lr%3D&aq=f&oq=
avoid signing up !!
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looks like its been taken down at last..
but they have set up a new page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/FIRST-3-MILLION-GET-A-FREE-SMILEY-T-SHIRT/246272172544?ref=search&sid=666905432.340635244..1
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