April 30, 200620 yr I posted the following news item & article to my site FSnordic.net, and also notified several other simulation sites, so that users can be warned in case this kind of hoax happens again. Here are the details also for users of this forum:"Piracy is one of the main concerns of software developers in these days. This does not unfortunately exclude the flight simulation development projects which are also widely piratized.One of such piracy scams has come to the attention of FSnordic.net: We were informed of a new webshop that advertised selling simulator add-ons "2x cheaper than SimMarket". This sounded already so intriguing that it needed a closer look. Quickly it became evident that the shop is trying to sell pirated software from several different publishers, and was trying to poach users to buy products from them with huge -20% to -60% discounts off the "standard" prices.The publishers of the products sold at the shop confirmed to us the piracy status, so we contacted the shop owners and their webhost to get the site closed. This happened rather fast and at least for now, there is one pirate hoax site less.FSnordic.net's editor-in-chief Sami Puro has written a small article of this incident that also describes some ways to recognize other similar attempts. Please visit http://www.fsnordic.net/ to read the article."So please remember to stay alert and keep the common sense with you when making online purchases!--Sami Purohttp://www.fsnordic.net/
April 30, 200620 yr Commercial Member good job Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
April 30, 200620 yr >Sami Puro has written a small article of this incident that also describes some ways to recognize other similar attemptsthat should save people some money and effort
April 30, 200620 yr Author Good for you! Glad to see people care about doing the right thing and getting rid of these losers.KP
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