This post is based on a recent story. The intention is to explain how some programs are just and to achieve this we will use a very bad program called topfinancial.com. At first look the site seems built by a 15 yo boy. These people claim to be in the financial biz from 1996 and they have a so basic site? Maybe they do not earn enough money.
When making some researches seems the company lifetime seems true. The domain is registered in 1996 and on their sites there are archived news until 2008.
In their rating page, on the monitors seems the site is just 10 days old, so that 2008 archived news are totally fake. They claim to be active from 1996 because they think nobody could verify. But they’re wrong, because there is a way to know how a site was in the past years. I’m talking about archive.com.
If you go to http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://topfinancial.com you’ll reach the time-machine that will show you snapshots of site in the past.
* 12/12/98: http://web.archive.org/web/19981212033518/http://www.topfinancial.com/
* 12/04/00: http://web.archive.org/web/20001204160200/http://www.topfinancial.com/index.html
* 11/29/02: http://web.archive.org/web/20021129234947/http://topfinancial.com/
* 12/12/04: http://web.archive.org/web/20021129234947/http://topfinancial.com/
During this period the site was selling a real-estate software manager.
* 10/18/05: http://web.archive.org/web/20051018111316/http://www.topfinancial.com/
* 08/20/06 : http://web.archive.org/web/20060820174830/http://www.topfinancial.com/
In the 2005/06 the site is abandoned and contentless.
From 2007 until today no archive, that means site were not online.
Looking at whois:
Updated Date: 05-sep-2009
Creation Date: 16-dec-1996
Expiration Date: 15-dec-2012
Forget about creation date and take a look at updated date, meaning the last time when registrant data has been modified, that probably is the date of domain purchasing. Something like 15 days to take the domain online again with new registrant and a fake life starting in 1996.
A lot of scammers use this technique to assure investors that they’re online for a long time. Many, many programs lie about their lifetime, and when this bullshit is so evident you should go away form these sites. If someone wants to scam users, should be more careful and act with more style … :)
On the end, the Comodo logo placed at the bottom of the home page, is just an image that’s not linked to the certification, so this is fake too! Again, this is just an example, maybe this program could work for months or years, it’s up to you to decide if to invest or not.
Courtesy: http://www.riskygains.com/how-to-avoid-bullshit.html
By cerealkiller at 15 October, 2009, 6:24 pm
When making some researches seems the company lifetime seems true. The domain is registered in 1996 and on their sites there are archived news until 2008.
In their rating page, on the monitors seems the site is just 10 days old, so that 2008 archived news are totally fake. They claim to be active from 1996 because they think nobody could verify. But they’re wrong, because there is a way to know how a site was in the past years. I’m talking about archive.com.
If you go to http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://topfinancial.com you’ll reach the time-machine that will show you snapshots of site in the past.
* 12/12/98: http://web.archive.org/web/19981212033518/http://www.topfinancial.com/
* 12/04/00: http://web.archive.org/web/20001204160200/http://www.topfinancial.com/index.html
* 11/29/02: http://web.archive.org/web/20021129234947/http://topfinancial.com/
* 12/12/04: http://web.archive.org/web/20021129234947/http://topfinancial.com/
During this period the site was selling a real-estate software manager.
* 10/18/05: http://web.archive.org/web/20051018111316/http://www.topfinancial.com/
* 08/20/06 : http://web.archive.org/web/20060820174830/http://www.topfinancial.com/
In the 2005/06 the site is abandoned and contentless.
From 2007 until today no archive, that means site were not online.
Looking at whois:
Updated Date: 05-sep-2009
Creation Date: 16-dec-1996
Expiration Date: 15-dec-2012
Forget about creation date and take a look at updated date, meaning the last time when registrant data has been modified, that probably is the date of domain purchasing. Something like 15 days to take the domain online again with new registrant and a fake life starting in 1996.
A lot of scammers use this technique to assure investors that they’re online for a long time. Many, many programs lie about their lifetime, and when this bullshit is so evident you should go away form these sites. If someone wants to scam users, should be more careful and act with more style … :)
On the end, the Comodo logo placed at the bottom of the home page, is just an image that’s not linked to the certification, so this is fake too! Again, this is just an example, maybe this program could work for months or years, it’s up to you to decide if to invest or not.
Courtesy: http://www.riskygains.com/how-to-avoid-bullshit.html
By cerealkiller at 15 October, 2009, 6:24 pm
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