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Ian Pollard wrote:
Does anyone have any knowledge regarding the above site. It comes in with the following address:
http://udmurtiaware.com/
Is it for real or too good to be true. They are advertising Photoshop CS2 ver 9 for $69-99. Has anyone used their software? I would be interested in your experiences.
Well, let’s see. For starters, the Terms and Conditions say:
You cannot register the software with the manufacturer and updates are available not for all the products
Already, that shows you it is illegal pirated software. Under NO circumstances is legal software ever unregisterable; legal software, even legal OEM bundles, can always be registered.
Now let us look at the site itself:
Domain name: UDMURTIAWARE.COM
Registrar: PacNames
Referral URL:
http://www.pacnames.com/ Domain Registrant: TOTALNIC-127503 ()
Alex Rodrigez
Alex Rodrigez
P.O. Box 5009 Pirae TAHITI
Pirae TF 98716
PF
Telephone: +689.435695
Fax: +689.435695
Administrative, Technical Contact: TOTALNIC-127503 ()
Alex Rodrigez
Alex Rodrigez
P.O. Box 5009 Pirae TAHITI
Pirae TF 98716
PF
Telephone: +689.435695
Fax: +689.435695
Name Server: NS11.OEMSALO.COM
Name Server: NS12.OEMSALO.COM
PF is French Polynesia. The person running the site has registered it out of Polynesia to make it much more difficult for him to be arrested and presecuted for copyright infringement or fraud. If you ever have a problem or want your money back, good luck!
And look at the name servers: oemsalo.com. Oemsalo.com is also registered by the same guy, also in French Polynesia, and is blacklisted as a known spam site:
http://www.joewein.de/sw/bl-log-2005-12-29.htm The "oemsalo.com" name server is used as a name server for many, many criminal and spammer-advertised sites, including sites that advertise fake "penis pills," mirror pirate/bootleg software sites (such as buhlomat.com, a mirror of the pirate software site you are asking about), and so forth.
The site udmurtiaware.com and the name server oemsalo.com are registered in French Polynesia, but they are not hosted there. They are hosted in China, on China Netcom, a Web hosting service that specializes in (among other things) offshore hosting for illegal enterprises, including fake pill, money laundering, and pirate software sites"
Parsing input: udmurtiaware.com
Routing details for 61.156.42.102
[refresh/show] Cached whois for 61.156.42.102 :
De-referencing
abuse net pub.sd.cninfo.net = ,
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This is the same Web host that Leo Kuvayev, the leader of the so-called "Russian Spam Gang" and a person affiliated with Russian organized crime, uses to host *his* pirate software sites. Leo Kuvayev makes a ton of money on behalf of Russian organized crime by selling bootleg software through Web sites just like the one you are mentioning, registered under fake names in various foregin countres. I do not know if udmurtiaware.com is one of his domains or not, but it seems likely.
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In other words, the site is registered in a name that may be bogus in French Polynesia, and is hosted on servers in China that are known to be used by Russian organized crime for hosting sites that sell illegal bootleg software. Now, what do you think? Sound like a legitimate site to you?
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