[ale] Foreign website?

[Scott Castaline]

Jim Philips wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 July 2008 04:32:58 pm Scott Castaline wrote:
>   
>> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>     
>>> RE: Warez
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> 
>>>       
> wrote:
>   
>>>> Anybody know what warez-ks.net is? I'm suddenly receiving emails on my
>>>> gmail account in a foreign language that I can only guess could be
>>>> German as I believe the word muzika is music in German. It also provides
>>>> a link to the above mentioned site.
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>> Any idea as to why I am suddenly receiving email about this site? As far
>> as I know, I've never gone anywhere that distributes pirated material
>> whether it be software, music, or videos. As it is, if it were not for
>> bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all, so I don't need anything that
>> would bring the feds down my back, or up where the sun don't shine.
>>     
>
> The language is not German. It is a Slavic-like language and the URL's linked 
> to on the site have the old .su domain. This domain used to belong to the 
> Soviet Union, which of course doesn't exist anymore. I think it is somewhere 
> within one of their old republics. Of course, Russia is a hotbed of phishing 
> and ID theft activity, along with piracy. I would stay away (except that I 
> already looked). 
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Yeh, unfortunately I had too, but, not before disabling java scripting. 
I guess that's what they hope for as in the old saying, "Curiosity 
killed the cat", or something like that.