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I received an Email today offering Adobe Photoshop for $44..It seems too good to be true..but I can't find any way to contact Adobe to ask..does anyone know anything about this offer?

well....it would be quite helpful if you show us the mail....because this smells like spam.
and NO, i don't know about this offer...not yet.

elysiumart

HERE IS THE COMPLETE MAIL..I HOPE IT ISN"T BUGGY AND MESS STUFF UP..MAYBE PHOTOSHOP SHOULD BE NOTIFIED, I can forward the mail with the links if anyone wants it...


Subj: Save hundreds on Adobe Photoshop d14FGtjKyCslgWz8N71
Date: 6/23/2003 10:27:49 AM Central Daylight Time
From: HundredsOffAdobe306@thenet.com
To: vickie6138@www.gbrfoods.com (this is not my address..skye)
Sent from the Internet (Details)

Adobe Photoshop Version 7.0

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Over $400 off retail costs!
Voted the #1 image editing software for 2003
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Adobe Photoshop is, quite simply, the top of the line in graphic design. No program in the world does it better, and yet no single piece of software has been so out of reach to the average consumer due to its high price tag (retail costs are over $450).

For a limited time, we are offering the FULL version of Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for only $44.95.
You will not see this offer anywhere else, ever again.
This is a one time event, and this deal will not last long..

Click here for more info

Or click here to be completely removed from our mailing list

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but I can't find any way to contact Adobe to ask..

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--> Adobe's contact page.



[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 06-23-2003).]

If the offer is too good to be true..........

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Emps

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The sender's domain is thenet.com which gets forwarded to a web hosting site. The offer is too good too be true, and there is no available way to check it's credibility. It's spam )

The problem is..if anyone gave them a credit cards # and did not receive the program..that link looks like a almost real Adobe Page..then the credit card is stolen..this is bad serious theft stuff..Thanks for the link to Adobe and the other responses..just hope the mail didn't have a virus as a "bonus" free prize..shouldn't open mail..Thanks again!

HundredsOffAdobe306@thenet.com -- that address has me wondering. I checked out the thenet.com address. That is not their business address, it only goes to a low price internet provider. Kind of fishy that a business would not use their own email. hmmm.

The programmer's national anthem is 'AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH''

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that's surely a fasle address, you'll learn more about the origins from the email's headers, but alas, those are spoofable and get aroundable as well

it's spam, delete it =)

Jason

Guy I know answered one of these. Received Photoshop, all right. Was a CD-R copy with a Xerox of the manual.

If it's an unsolicited ad, don't answer it.

When this or something similar ( it was a site ) last surfaced someone here, at the time, was working for Adobe...that 'someone' passed the info along to Adobe's legal dept. and in no time at all that site was gone.
So if you haven't already... you should pass the info to Adobe.

wes. did you also receive a legal cd key?

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Guy I know answered one of these.

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Right... like going to the doctor and saying "A friend of mine has been having a problem with impotence..."

It's OK, Wes. We still love you.

Suho1004: I'm sorry to hear about your problem - I thought the Koreans would have plenty of herbal rememdies for that kind of thing (like black rhino penis powder).

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Emps

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Well Emps, I was trying not to mention you by name, but I see you just couldn't stay out of it, could you?

Suho1004: Ahhhhhh I'm a Rampant Bull Jelly man everytime

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Emps

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Rampant Bull Jelly man

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I think that ones going on the quotes page.


[This message has been edited by Gilbert Nolander (edited 06-25-2003).]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Interestingly it only appears once on Google (at least until the next index ):
www.google.com/search?q=%22rampant+bull+jelly%22

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Emps

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Well, I wasn't going to admit this, but I tried Googling it and all I could come up with was some weird fanfic porn...

Hate to go back to topic, but I actually was in the process of ordering. When I got to the field asking for the 3-digit code on the back of my credit card, I got a LITTLE suspicious. I did speak w/Adobe, found it was pirated, and filled out an anti-piracy report.

A.D.D.--Keeping blondes honest for untold decades

You weren't suspicious until they asked for the verification number on your card? That's possibly the least unusual part about the whole thing.

I think the short version is that if you want illegal software, this is probably one of the more dangerous and inefficient ways of getting it; and if you don't, then obviously these guys aren't for you.

Cell 1250 :: alanmacdougall.com :: Illustrator tips

Whoa... there was a topic?

Man, I must be losing it...

Woah. I forgot the name of this site. Glad I made it back to receive my diss.

A.D.D.--Keeping blondes honest for untold decades