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Do you get e-mails offering pirated software at discount rates and want Microsoft to do something about it?

I got a mail from one of the community leads the other day about "downloading Office 2007 for a 80% discount".  These mails are always fraudulent - in many cases you will not even be sent any software, pirated or stolen, but your credit card details will be re-used.

Should you be sent something, as said, it will not be legal, so at best will be stolen, at worse, will be hacked together and probably contain spy/malware too.

This business damages us all, so if you are in the UK and wish to report it, please just foward these mails to the UK Piracy team at [email protected].

 

thanks

 

David

Posted Fri, Dec 8 2006 6:44 AM by David Overton
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Tim Long wrote If it sounds too good to be true...
on Fri, Dec 8 2006 6:09 PM

If it sounds too good to be true, then it is! I've been receiving emails offering me a download-only

TiGra Networks - The Small Business IT Specialists wrote If it sounds too good to be true...
on Fri, Dec 8 2006 6:09 PM

If it sounds too good to be true, then it is! I've been receiving emails offering me a download-only

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