Too good to be true?

feisar32

Hi all

Sorry if I'm being hopelessly naive here ... this was a link on another site I was browsing. Had a quick look and sounds brilliant, but far too good to be true ... especially seeing as it gives you a countdown to opt in but this is reset to twelve minutes if you paste the link into another browser ...

I've had a quick look and it looks as though OilPrice.com are a legitimate business but if that's the cast I wouldn't have thought they'd be operating a scam ...

The link is oilprice.com/er/signup

Thoughts ... ?

puk999

Is this a joke? Obviously a scam.

feisar32

No. I'd done some checking and as I said, the company appears to be legitimate. It felt like a scam to me but as my experience of such is limited I thought I'd come to a place where others with more experience might be able to advise

Thanks for your somewhat sarcastic but otherwise helpful response, you've confirmed what I already suspected

george4064

Most certainly spam/scam/fake, I'm not going to open the URL because it looks dodgy.

Having viewed the website independently, it appears to be just an oil price/oil information website with an option for 'premium info.'

feisar32

It had an SSL designation in front of it and the certificate was a legitimate cert from an acknowledged CA. I had to strip that out though as the website wouldn't let me post a full URL

feisar32

As I have the answer I needed now, is there any way I can close my own threads, or get a moderator to do it ... ?

joujou

feisar32 wrote: »

It had an SSL designation in front of it and the certificate was a legitimate cert from an acknowledged CA. I

Any shmuck can do this.

To add a bit more, a legit cert guarantees (to a reasonable extent) that the data between you and the server hasn't been messed with whilst onroute.

It doesn't tell you anything whatsoever about the validity of the content, the legitimacy of its owner, etc..