This can't be legit, can it?

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    cryophonik
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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/29 17:34:43 (permalink)
    I doubt it. I always go by the old rule that, if it looks to good to be true, it's warez. Email the link to Izotope support - they'll tell you if it's legit and, if not, then at least you'll give their cybercops something to do this afternoon.



    edit: I just sent the link to Izotope support, so we'll see....
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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/29 17:42:14 (permalink)
    Pretty sure it's not. Send me $39.95 and I'll find out for you.

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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/29 19:46:21 (permalink)
    Sounds like a scam to either get your credit card number or sell you a bogus copy of the software (probably illegal bit torrent copies with generated serial numbers). Who do you report this kind of stuff to? They are selling Waves OEM software! For crying out loud there is no such thing as Waves OEM software.
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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/29 19:52:00 (permalink)
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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/29 20:46:56 (permalink)
    edit: I just sent the link to Izotope support, so we'll see....


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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/30 10:56:43 (permalink)
    The red flag word is "OEM". When used to describe software, it almost always indicates a pirated copy.

    Another indicator is the domain name, which supposedly belongs to the Harbor Assembly of God Church in Hoquiam, Washington, an apparently legitimate church. I'll bet they forgot to pay their renewal and somebody in Russia hijacked the domain name.


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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/30 11:55:47 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: bitflipper
    Another indicator is the domain name, which supposedly belongs to the Harbor Assembly of God Church in Hoquiam, Washington, an apparently legitimate church. I'll bet they forgot to pay their renewal and somebody in Russia hijacked the domain name.


    Or just jacked into their network and startd storing warez on the church's machines.

    I worked for a major ISP years ago, won't mention the name, and we did lots of UNIX and NT software development for custom websites/webapps... We were running NT4 on the desktops at the time, and one day my buddy started getting a bunch of administrative warnings out of the blue about low disk space...

    Apparently, when you installed IIS in those days, you also got an FTP service that was enabled by default, whether you knew it or not. Some warez hackers (ok, they were probably just pimply-faced MIT undergads -- wouldn't have been the fist time) scanned the network, found the active FTP port, and was using his desktop machine to share pirated games... or at least the parts of pirated games that they could upload until they ran out of disk space! The FTP directory also contained many directory entries, the names of which were messages between the uploaders/downloaders... and one of the last was something like "i_think_were_out_of_disk_space" .
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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/30 12:03:48 (permalink)
    I notice they're also offering Cakewalk software as well.

    ...time to alert the Sonar Police!

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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/30 16:54:49 (permalink)
    An ARIN WHOIS search could not find any entry for harboragchurch.com.

    tracert showed the ultimate address as 78.159.122.99, in a domain called internetserviceteam.com. ARIN WHOIS says that IP address is registered by RIPE in Amsterdam.

    A query of RIPE's database turned up Omni-Tek in Montenegro, although the organization is shown as netdirekt in Frankfurt, Germany. netdirekt is an ISP and web hosting service.

    The actual perpetrators could be in Frankfurt but running off a server in another country to evade German law. On the other hand, netdirekt has international customers and doesn't seem to be too picky about who they sell services to, so only netdirekt knows who and where they are.

    A fake YouTube website was traced to 75.159.122.10, obviously in the same subnet as the host under discussion. The same IP address was attributed to takari.cn and tembi.cn. This probably indicates their real location: China.

    So apparently a church in Washington State let their domain lapse, it was picked up by someone in China, who contracted with an ISP in Germany who put the warez website on a server in Montenegro.


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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/30 16:56:06 (permalink)
    Check out the product description, it's hilarious:

    Ozone 3 along-includes all tools ozone, which must compile you
    Commercial clay/tone in the seconds. Occupation sketched pre-setting
    and applause-worthy ozone, which compiles step by step leader way you
    by the production of the radio-ready masters.

    The process of the control is enough of the errors made by the correction
    in the mixture for preparing an admission for the goal hearing
    Environment. Like a concluding coat of the polishing agent, the control forms
    Difference between a good sounding mixture and a specialist
    Blade of the master.


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    rumleymusic
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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/30 17:33:42 (permalink)
    Ozone 3 along-includes all tools ozone, which must compile you
    Commercial clay/tone in the seconds. Occupation sketched pre-setting
    and applause-worthy ozone, which compiles step by step leader way you
    by the production of the radio-ready masters.

    The process of the control is enough of the errors made by the correction
    in the mixture for preparing an admission for the goal hearing
    Environment. Like a concluding coat of the polishing agent, the control forms
    Difference between a good sounding mixture and a specialist
    Blade of the master.


    ...que? I didn't even read that. What language is that? What is a specialist Blade of the master? What is going on...? Where am I!?
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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/30 17:38:26 (permalink)
    Needless to say, this site is completely illegal and there is not one thing anyone can do about it.

    BTW if you want a really good gig (I just got this in an email), there is a wealthy person in Nigeria who is offering a good fee to transfer his substantial inheritance to an american bank. You just need to provide your account numbers, go to Nigeria, get kidnapped and held hostage until proper randsom can be payed....any takers?
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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/30 18:48:00 (permalink)
    Nah, I'm too busy helping some nice lady on the Ivory Coast whose husband died , left her a huge estate right before she found out she had terminal cancer , and wants to share the money with my church .





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    RE: This can't be legit, can it? 2008/08/31 01:53:16 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: bitflipper

    An ARIN WHOIS search could not find any entry for harboragchurch.com.

    tracert showed the ultimate address as 78.159.122.99, in a domain called internetserviceteam.com. ARIN WHOIS says that IP address is registered by RIPE in Amsterdam.




    internetserviceteam.com is a well documented information harvest group.
    They're fairly large and own a ton of IP address ranges.

    A phishing scam seems to be about par for them.



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