Monday, January 17, 2011

SCAM! email large files for free - bait and switch

dropsend.com scam
sendspace.com scam
largefilesasap.com scam
pando.com scam

Google on how to send large files by email and you will get a whole slew of websites that purport to offer a free means to send/upload large files as big as 100m to 1g for an email recipient of your choice. What you get instead of what they promise is in some cases a nonfunctional window that misleads you and is designed to frustrate you into buying an "upgrade". In other cases their "free offer" requires your credit card # as they bet that you'll forget to cancel for at least the first month after your "free" period expires. Dropsend is hilarious, they lead you through the "upload" process, and show you a fake window that stays at "1%" while the caption below says for faster upload buy the upgrade. Pando lets you think you sent something but your recipient can't get it unless they buy. I sent something to myself as a test, and even though I supposedly have the Pando app the file still wouldn't open - SURPRISE! It's because I didn't BUY it! And, their "support" is available, guess what, to PAYING customers only. If you happen to read good reviews rest assured they're planted by shills working for the company


Some are simply designed in such a labyrinthine manner as to thwart the average user, to whom the phony free offer is targeted.

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