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Sleazy Yahoo UK hypes free flix scam
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codger
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I had heard that Yahoo was going down the pan. Sooner the better then, seeing as how I have been online to check my ymail account only to be faced with a Yahoo UK 'Home News' page in which the fourth out of 102 news items is:
The end of Netflix? Millions are choosing this
Since this company decided to offer their premium service for free, millions of users are choosing this as their favourite streaming TV and movie site.
A lie, every word of it. The 'company' behind this 'free service' is an outfit called Flixshed and what it wants from you is your credit card details so as to charge you a helluva lot more than Netflix or any other streaming service would think of doing. Though undeniably aware that it is a scam, Yahoo UK & Ireland has happily gobbled up a presumably fat fee to allow the fake story to appear so prominently in its news item list.
I'm just wondering if it's worth notifying the online fraud alert folks about this or whether it's best to just leave Yahoo UK & Ireland to expire? As the company obviously can't get money from anywhere other than from scammers its demise can't be long off?
The end of Netflix? Millions are choosing this
Since this company decided to offer their premium service for free, millions of users are choosing this as their favourite streaming TV and movie site.
A lie, every word of it. The 'company' behind this 'free service' is an outfit called Flixshed and what it wants from you is your credit card details so as to charge you a helluva lot more than Netflix or any other streaming service would think of doing. Though undeniably aware that it is a scam, Yahoo UK & Ireland has happily gobbled up a presumably fat fee to allow the fake story to appear so prominently in its news item list.
I'm just wondering if it's worth notifying the online fraud alert folks about this or whether it's best to just leave Yahoo UK & Ireland to expire? As the company obviously can't get money from anywhere other than from scammers its demise can't be long off?
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Unfortunately by this thread we're giving them even more publicity0
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You get those type of ads on loads of sites.Come on you Irons0
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