Apple Canada Higher Education sales has rolled out a promo programme for Higher Ed students. It's a referral marketing thing where you can win a prize that's worth more money to you the more friends you "enroll".
www.winwhatyouwant.ca
This was posted on another board and me and some others went hardball on it because the domain is registered to another company (and registered 14 days ago), not at Apple.ca, it uses a non-secure website to collect private information, there is no link to the promotion from Apple Canada, the Privacy and Terms of Use pages link back to the general pages at Apple, it's "enroll your friends" theme is scarily similar to the 'free iPod/Mac Mini' scams, all of the links and site code are hidden within Flash, etc. etc.
So it had all the hallmarks of a phishing scheme.
So I called Apple Customer support, they say "It's not an Apple site sir, I have reported this to Apple Security"
Then I called Apple Canada Customer Relations, get managers on the line, and they say "Apple would only ever run a promotion from our own web site."
Finally I call Apple Marketing, and they say "Yes, it's a new promotion that we rolled out today. It's being run by our marketing firm". Marketing had neglected to tell the other Apple units about the promotion (oops).
So a textbook example of how not to handle a legitimate promotional website (or conversely how to look like a scam-site).
Anyway, for any Canadian university students, you can register for a chance to win fabulous prizes etc. if you are interested.
www.winwhatyouwant.ca
This was posted on another board and me and some others went hardball on it because the domain is registered to another company (and registered 14 days ago), not at Apple.ca, it uses a non-secure website to collect private information, there is no link to the promotion from Apple Canada, the Privacy and Terms of Use pages link back to the general pages at Apple, it's "enroll your friends" theme is scarily similar to the 'free iPod/Mac Mini' scams, all of the links and site code are hidden within Flash, etc. etc.
So it had all the hallmarks of a phishing scheme.
So I called Apple Customer support, they say "It's not an Apple site sir, I have reported this to Apple Security"
Then I called Apple Canada Customer Relations, get managers on the line, and they say "Apple would only ever run a promotion from our own web site."
Finally I call Apple Marketing, and they say "Yes, it's a new promotion that we rolled out today. It's being run by our marketing firm". Marketing had neglected to tell the other Apple units about the promotion (oops).
So a textbook example of how not to handle a legitimate promotional website (or conversely how to look like a scam-site).
Anyway, for any Canadian university students, you can register for a chance to win fabulous prizes etc. if you are interested.
