Why searching for reviews online is important?
Here is a very interesting story (may be stupid story) for you to think about. Today one of my friend called me and said he was cheated online. He paid $60 for a horoscope report from www.aboutastro.com and he did not get it. My first reaction was “What the …!!! sixty dollars for an useless report?”. I asked him whether he read any reviews before going for the deal? “Well. No!” was his answer.
Ok!! before writing what exactly happened let me share you one of my experience with online reviews. I own a compaq presario v3225au laptop and before buying this I read reviews about this model for atleast 2 months. I also made sure I was not wastin my money by enquiring about this product with others who own it. Once I was happy with my selection I ordered the laptop and so far I am more than happy with its performance.
Now back to the horoscope story. My friend. who is fond of these astrology stuff, decided to get a paid report about his future from aboutastro.com. He tried out their free report and found it true. So he paid them 60$ for a detailed report and he is still waiting for the report. He showed me some of the email from an astrologer named Jenna and it ws pretty interesting. All emails were written as if she was his guardian angel and wants him to realise where he was heading (no wonder he fell for it ).
I thought I will give it a try myself. I signed up for a free report. but this time I gave my emil ID as shobankr+aa@gmail.com. Gmail is very intelligent in delivering all emails to this ID to my original ID shobankr@gmail.com Guess what even before I received my free horoscope report. I started receiving emails from doctors all around the world giving me tips to increase my ***** size 
. these guys were also ready to send free viagara to me. And to add more flavour I also won a lottery of 60,000 pounds from UK national lottery.
I checked the header of all these emails and guess what they were all addressed to shobankr+aa@gmail.com. These guys sold my email ID.
I was 100% sure that aboutastro was nothing but a site owned by a bunch of few idiots who want to earn some quick money.
I did a whois check up for this site and more interesting stuff turned up. The site is registered to some address in France. Did I tell you that these guys had their HO at United States?
Last I did a quick google search for “Jenna horoscope fraud” and landed in a very interesting discussion about this scam!
Atleast I am happy that my friend was not alone
So next time, before making an online deal, make sure you know about the product completely. Oh! BTW did you read about my experience with Indiatimes shopping ?
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Hi there:
Great
article. I discovered the aboutastro.com site while surfing for related topics of study
on the solar system. My 9 year old daughter is working on a science project – and one of
my favorite contributions is to surf for relevant information on trustworthy sites. I
like to do the initial surfing, and create a list of sites I approve of, and give her the
links to explore on her own. search phrases I used were “learn about solar system”, and
“pictures of planets” – unfortunately, I don’t recall which site I found the link to
aboutastro.com but it came up a few times, and after being primed for astral activity and
open-minded learning I finally “took a chance” and entered into their domain. I had
forgotten I filled out the request for free reading – but after a few days I received my
first email from them, saying they received the request and that I should receive a
response soon. And I did. It was a fantastic reading! One of the best speals I have
heard in years! I think my first clue was the sheer awesomeness of the reading.
Curiousity got the best of me, and I went forward to do a little “astro-reading” of my
own. I returned to the website and searched for clues of authenticity and profession.
Finding none – I googled her “Jenna” and aboutastro.com because I haven’t bought any
services off a website before, and definitely have never given my creditcard information
for a service before. But I was intrigued!! lo an behold I discovered something I
already suspected – I was not alone. word for word my astral journey has been charted
across the universe – or at least across the globe, or at least with the handful of users
who were ‘hooked’ by the remarkable findings of “Jenna”.
The hilarious part, the
divine irony of the situation – is that I really am going through change, with new
opportunities before me – etc… at work we all chipped in for “the big one”, I do need to
“act now” on a challenging decision, but one that really will have a definite and long
term impact on my career. etc. etc. so – at the very least I can thank “Jenna” for
stating the obvious: be well, be attentive, sieze moments of opportunity with confidence,
keep dreaming, find alignment and balance, and trust your instincts! LOL
I do have, and
still intend on satisfying curiousity of astral knowledge – and will approach it with an
“open-mind”, as opposed to my alter “knot-head” persona. lol
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oh – I probably should
also mention that I reported the email as a potential ‘phishing’ email. If my email
provider required me to identify moments of
my own idoiocy, I’m slightly abashed – I
would have to click that one too! Hopefully, my reporting the email address will help
protect my email buddies from any potential vulnerability.
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