Cheap Webcams

[jsantos52]

http://www.AcuteReality.com

This site claims to sell webcams for $1.00 USD for signing up through their
partner site. Now I have to protest, we've all seen Get Free
before no doubt but this seems to be the real deal.

I remember back then web cameras were costing a fortune to have, it's crazy
that companies can sell them like hotcakes for the price of a child's GI joe
plastic figerine.

Anyway, I signed up and they sent me the tracking number, still waiting for the cam.. all I paid was $1 and I could use a webcam for my new laptop tho, so it's all good.

I'm curious to know what will happen to that $1 I gave up

note: i don't think this is advertisement, if it is sorry.. clearly not my intentions

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Advertising clearly IS your intention. Apparently, so is lying. You posted exactly the same spam three days ago under the name, TazX3k. At the time, we deleted your spam post, warned you and left your other account unlocked because you made other good posts. Now, both accounts are locked, and you are permanently banned from our forums.

AnandTech Moderator

 

[jsantos52]

For those who don't believe this isn't real, check out my bank account screenshot:

fleet bank account
As you can see, iFriends charged me a $1.....

JS

 

[jhurst]

$1 webcam
$3 ATM fee


gotta hate paying $3 to get 20 out of an ATM :evil:

 

[zaph]

Its a referral program.
Those are not allowed here.

And it really does not look good, for a new member , who joined today, and thier 1st post is a thinly veiled referral link.

Remember kids, if its a pink, squishy meat-like substance that smells like spam, it probably is.

 

[cumhail]

Oh, it gets better when you check the whois record for acutereality.com:

Registrant:
cc
-
- 00000
Zambia

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: ACUTEREALITY.COM
Created on: 21-Apr-03
Expires on: 21-Apr-05
Last Updated on: 04-May-04

Administrative Contact:
Joe, Joe tazx2k@hotmail.com
cc
-
- 00000
Zambia
5555555555 Fax --
Technical Contact:
Joe, Joe tazx2k@hotmail.com
cc
-
- 00000
Zambia
5555555555 Fax --

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.DOMAIN-DNS.COM
NS2.DOMAIN-DNS.COM

This isn't just spam... It's almostly 100% definitely a scam.

 

[CyberZenn]

Get lost jerkhole! This guy is pimping his own site (and lying about it). He did the same thing over at FW - check out the whois:

Registrant:
cc
-
- 00000
Zambia

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: ACUTEREALITY.COM
Created on: 21-Apr-03
Expires on: 21-Apr-05
Last Updated on: 04-May-04

Administrative Contact:
Joe, Joe tazx2k@hotmail.com
cc
-
- 00000
Zambia
5555555555 Fax --
Technical Contact:
Joe, Joe tazx2k@hotmail.com
cc
-
- 00000
Zambia
5555555555 Fax --

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.DOMAIN-DNS.COM
NS2.DOMAIN-DNS.COM


He got busted over there b/c his forum handle 'tazx3k' was almost the same as the hotmail email addr. listed in the whois.

Mods please ban this stooge.

 

[jsantos52]

It's really not spam,
but i do understand that you guys think it is.
it's cool i just thought it was a good deal to post, yeah it does seem shady since i'm a new member but what better to kick it off than a great post?

btw what's the deal with that whois record?

JSantos

 

[Chancellor]

Originally posted by: jsantos52
For those who don't believe this isn't real, check out my bank account screenshot:

fleet bank account
As you can see, iFriends charged me a $1.....

JS

I don't think anyone doubts that they'll take your money. The question is whether or not you'll get anything in return.

 

[CyberZenn]

Originally posted by: jsantos52
It's really not spam,
but i do understand that you guys think it is.
it's cool i just thought it was a good deal to post, yeah it does seem shady since i'm a new member but what better to kick it off than a great post?

btw what's the deal with that whois record?

JSantos

The whois record shows who registered the domain. As you can see all the info is fake. If, in fact, you aren't affiliated with the site (but I am suspicious that you are since your post resembles the one at FatWallet very closely), you should cancel your credit card number ASAP. This has SCAM written all over it. :|

 

[cumhail]

I'd be willing to bet that anyone who signs up for this will see a lot more than $1 charged to their accounts. Then good luck trying to get any of your money back. But even if that's not the case, get enough suckers to do it and a scammer gets himself plenty of money for no effort whether it's $1/sucker or even via referral-compensation.

Beyond that, jsantos52, you're trying way too hard to not have some vested interest in this... just as an observation.

cumhail

 

[BurningDog]

haha @ deleting the porn from your bank statement

 

[tbach]

ITs quite simple really.
Not sure if ifiends has a free trial or what but your signing up for membership to ifriends and the person who is giving out the camera is getting $40-$80 per signup.
They can easily give out a cheap webcom.
It might be legit but most definately is spam ....

 

[Hav0k99]

this is truly a scam

 

[olouie]

WTF! This guy already posted this crap here before and it was locked. GO AWAY! Stupid spammer even used the exact same registar info last time. Must been some stupid teenager looking to commit fraud to get this summer spending money.

"note: i don't think this is advertisement, if it is sorry.. clearly not my intentions" <-- yeah just what you said last time when we caught you!

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: olouie
WTF! This guy already posted this crap here before and it was locked. GO AWAY! Stupid spammer even used the exact same registar info last time. Must been some stupid teenager looking to commit fraud to get this summer spending money.

"note: i don't think this is advertisement, if it is sorry.. clearly not my intentions" <-- yeah just what you said last time when we caught you!

I was wondering if someone would remember that.

Similiar SPAM was posted a few days ago, think the mods deleted that thread.