2011-07-16

Fraudulent announcement about Skype

I do not know what visiting the site below does. I am not going to find out. It is registered with the Russian NIC. As you can see in the whois information below, it was registered today. It will probably be gone tomorrow, or later today.

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New Skype Has Been Releases ! Upgrade Now

from Skype newsletter@skype-update-center.com
sender-time Sent at 10:25 (UTC). Current time there: 5:25 PM. ✆
reply-to Skype
to myemail@address.com
date Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:25
subject New Skype Has Been Releases ! Upgrade Now
mailed-by b.e.rhapsody.com
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hide details 10:25 (1 hour ago)
New Skype Has Been Releases

This is to notify that new updates have been released for Skype.

http://www.skype-news-center.net

Following are major new features :

* Up to 5-way group video call.
* Redesigned calling experience.
* Improved video snapshots gallery.
* Improved browser plugins performance on some websites.
* Reduced false positives on browser plugin phone number recognition.
* New presence icons.
* Improved handling of calling attempts made when the user has run out of credit.
* Improved access to sharing functionality

To download the latest version , go to :

http://www.skype-news-center.net

Start downloading the update right now and let us know what you think about it.

We're working on making Skype better all the time !

Talk soon,

The people at Skype

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REGISTRY WHOIS FOR SKYPE-UPDATE-CENTER.COM
Domain Name: skype-update-center.com
Updated: 1 hour ago - Refresh

Registrar: REGIONAL NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER, JSC DBA RU-CENTER
Whois Server: whois.nic.ru
Referral URL: http://www.nic.ru
Status: clientTransferProhibited

Expiration Date: 2012-07-16
Creation Date: 2011-07-16
Last Update Date: 2011-07-16

Name Servers:
ns1.skype-update-center.com
ns2.skype-update-center.com
See skype-update-center.com DNS Records

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1 comment:

Kristoffer said...

So.. I shouldn't go there and download the "new" Skype? (: