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Software Awards

Started by Retired Tech , Aug 20 2007 01:47 AM

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Retired Tech

Posted 20 August 2007 - 01:47 AM

Retired Staff

Retired Staff
20,563 posts

A software author who submitted his softwares to various download sites before took a closer look at some of them only to find out that some download sites gave awards to every software in their catalog.

http://successfulsof...re-awards-scam/

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don77

Posted 21 August 2007 - 05:36 AM

Malware Expert

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18,526 posts

And how do people get duped into downloading crap ? Shame

The download sites that practise this deceit should be ashamed of themselves. Similarly, any author or company, that displays one of these ‘awards’ is either being naive (at best) or knowingly colluding in the scam (at worst).

That says it all