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View Full Version : Scheme preys on people who mistype 'Google.com'


Dave Zan
04-28-2005, 11:22 AM
An old problem rears its ugly head once more:

http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5686764.html

dmaven
04-28-2005, 12:03 PM
Yep, I read the same article. Scammers everywhere

DevilDog
04-28-2005, 05:30 PM
What a bunch of dorks. If you're going to use a misspelling of a name you could come up with a better idea than messing up somebody's computer.

Jeffreyw
04-28-2005, 09:52 PM
The internet should be stopped. Scammers, cheaters, criminals are growing because of the presence of the internet. Even people who are not inclined to criminal activity are lured to become scammers...it's all because of the internet. Internet should be stopped. :D

Disgruntled
04-30-2005, 04:58 AM
Here is whois data on the domain that was downloading the worm. It looks like they were using Google to host the site:

Whois-output
DOMAIN googkle.com
Registrar: JOKER.COM
Status: lock
Handle: 376303
Owner
Name: Sergey Gridasov
Organization:
Email: umsoft@yahoo.com
Address: Salnevostochny pr., d46, kv410
Postalcode/City: 193230 St.-Petersburg
State: Spb
Country: RU
Administrative contact: umsoft@yahoo.com#1
Technical contact: umsoft@yahoo.com#1
Billing contact: umsoft@yahoo.com#3
Nameserver: ns2.google.com
ns1.google.com
created by core: 2000-12-30 09:29:18
modified by JORE-1: 2005-04-28 18:56:16
db-updated: 2005-04-30 08:21:02
expires: 2005-12-30 09:29:18

Disgruntled
04-30-2005, 05:36 AM
Although it doesn't look like Google does webhosting. Maybe this was an arrangement between Joker.com and google.com to prevent the domain name owner from further misusing it.