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02-03-2005, 09:36 AM
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A suspicious email is doing the rounds claiming to be from 'Voldemort'. It also claims that if you follow a number of steps, you can receive Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for free.
It's not quite clear whether this means free on the day of release or whether it is claiming to give you the book early, as it says you'll have it 'first'.
Either way, please don't believe it. Ignore and delete it, if you receive any email that sounds anything like this.
This is the type of scam which makes false claims while making you spend money before even getting to the prize.
Jo Rowling herself warned us of these sorts of scams, so please, do not listen to them. You will not receive book six by following their steps.
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02-03-2005, 09:48 AM
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I wonder why people would believe that anyway... I wonder why people do it in the fisrt place lol.
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02-03-2005, 11:40 AM
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|  Scandinavian ModChimaera
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A suspicious email is doing the rounds claiming to be from 'Voldemort'. It also claims that if you follow a number of steps, you can receive Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for free.
Yeah right! Blah!
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02-03-2005, 01:10 PM
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| | Dragon
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What idiots... and some people fall for it... Well thanks for the warning.
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02-03-2005, 02:28 PM
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| sporksSUB Skrewt
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Stupid scamming!! It probably allows them to get into your computer and hack around for a while.
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02-03-2005, 03:43 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Virginia, USA
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How annoying. :/
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02-03-2005, 05:11 PM
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|  String QueenBicorn
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Good golly. I wonder why people would do such a thing. No one in their right mind would want to spend hundreds of dollars to buy many of them on a particular book just give away for free to unknown people. It's a good thing that I tend to be very cautious, and yet curious.
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02-03-2005, 06:52 PM
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Who would trust something from Voldemort anyway?
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02-03-2005, 07:46 PM
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I fell sorry for people who don't have the sense to know that it is not real
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02-03-2005, 09:25 PM
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thanks for the warning!
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02-03-2005, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Madame_Tonks Stupid scamming!! It probably allows them to get into your computer and hack around for a while. ^ I agree totally! I got one that said something like HBP your's free 1st. click here to find out. I was like I am not clicking anything. I already pre-orded mine anyways so I don't really need a free one. | |
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02-03-2005, 10:17 PM
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| | Bicorn
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Poor JK. First people try to scam other people using her book, and then people actually want to book for free instead of giving her the money for the soon-to-be fabulous book.
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02-03-2005, 10:20 PM
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| | Faerie
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how stupid....who ever is doing it is a freak!
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02-03-2005, 10:26 PM
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People are stupid sometimes, and it`s sad.
But now we`re warned, at least........
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02-03-2005, 10:37 PM
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| | Yeti
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how sad is that.. some people are just stupid. i receive some emails like that but for games and i just delete them.
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02-03-2005, 10:42 PM
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thats awful!!! its really stupid too... total thumbs down
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02-03-2005, 11:09 PM
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| | Bicorn
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thanks for the heads-up! voldemort huh? lol..
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02-03-2005, 11:12 PM
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oh yeah it from u-know-who please
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02-04-2005, 06:21 AM
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heh, already posted my comments here but i wanted to mention that i saw this on the news!!! yep, they brought it up, dunno why i recorded it though...
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02-04-2005, 09:28 AM
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| | Skrewt
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I hate those scams...completely st00pid. Yeah, like thats genuine! I'd feel safe betting a trillion dollars it was fake...
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02-06-2005, 03:14 AM
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lol y would ppl actually do it??
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02-07-2005, 07:22 AM
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| | Gnome
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Originally Posted by samanthalee1983 Who would trust something from Voldemort anyway? I was going to say the exact same thing!! Seriously...if you received something from Voldemort saying you'd get something by doing these steps....a-why would you believe it and b-hello!!! it's from someone claiming to be voldemort. both an evil character and fictional. LOL
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