Dodgey "DELL" competition

GoneShootin

Lew

My mother got post a few days ago about a competition to win an Inspiron laptop in conjunction with the Dell Outlet Centre.

Simple answer "who founded Dell". Tells you to go to www.dell.ie/ireland. That tweaked my suspicious cap, as it seems an odd address.

Nehoo, you select the answer on the website, give your name and email, and click send. I got MORE suspicious when I saw:

http://www.adfireworks.nl/ems2/subscribe.asp?p=pxbbbcbdbeffjgbhxwqk as the address in the browser address bad. But sure I filled it out using my junk email address and sent it off anyway, getting:

http://www.adfireworks.nl/ems2/Subscribe.asp?action=ThankYou&p=pxbbbcbdbeffjgbhxwqk&r=&ec=&orgid=0&eventid=0&email=myemail@place.com

You then get forwarded to the dell outlet euro centre after the "thank you" garbage. The page looks like a dell page, even down to properly working search page, and t&c at the bottom. It still looks dodgey though. Has anyone else had this ?

unklerosco

email dell see what they say..

Canis Lupus

unless they are spammers looking for an active address to spam or unless they advise to send money for courier/processing fees or ask for specific bank or card details then whats to be suspicious of. Anyway it's only a competition... I usually ignore those sort of things.

l3rian

dell... answer emails

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=www.dell.ie%2Fireland

Fionn

this http://www.adfireworks.nl/ems2/subs...cbdbeffjgbhxwqk resolves to 194.109.35.12 which is the Canonical name of "dh-hosting.nt4all.nl" someplace in the Netherlands.
Haven't checked who they are tho!!

Canis Lupus

unklerosco wrote:

email dell see what they say..

Obviously the most obvious answer.... reminds me of a time I had to try and repair a printer that had no power.... Firstly I changed the fuse... then I changed the power cord... then I tried different wall sockets.... then I searched for anything visible causing a problem inside the machine.... then I realised the machine had an on off button....

Saruman

could be legit!! I mean lots of outsourcing these days... Pigsback for instance used to do surveys but these days the serveys are not on a pigsback domain but 3rd party sites.. this could be the same. adfireworks.nl seems to be some kind of affiliate site. Maybe Dell cant be arsed setting this up.

All they seem to be getting is an email address... although then again... it could be the beginning of a scam... once they have your details you "win" the laptop but have to pay shipping to which you log on and give credit card details to pay for the shipping

aphex™

Jesus lads its just some outside marketing company they get to run the competitions.

Keep yer pants on.

Saruman

I just did it anyway... used my online.ie email address which is used for stuff like that.. eh.. crap... so will see if i get spam, or something else.. who knows maybe i will win