Scalpers Riding the Google Wave Money Train
Scalpers Riding the Google Wave Money Train
Posted 10/02/2009 at 2:23pm
| by Jason Barry
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Google sent out invitations to the new Google Wave beta yesterday and chaos is ensuing. Patrick Runald, senior manager of security and research at Websense, has been keeping an eye on all of the madness.
He has tracked search queries related to Wave invitations that lead you down the dark dirty alleys of the interwebs. Many searches yield results to malware and virus laden sites where it’s always phishing season.
The Wall Street Journal also reported an eBay auction for a Google Wave invite that saw bids get over $100 and side offers in the thousands. EBay quashed the whole thing due to copyright restrictions in its seller policy, but how gadget crazy has the world gone?
Did you get an invite? If you didn’t, are you livid and determined to get one “by any means?” Or are you cool with waiting for your turn to ride the Wave?
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xunknownx
October 05, 2009 at 10:28am
can some kind maximum pc user send an invite to another maximum pc user? xunknownx@gmail.com
hellomms
October 02, 2009 at 5:47pm
Would love to get one soon but definitely not going to try to get 'by any means'.
Did bid $1.00 on ebay, not paying more then that ;)
rockntrumpet
October 02, 2009 at 3:36pm
Anyone with an invitation that they would like to send my way? rockntrumpet [at] gmail [dot] com
greyjasper
October 02, 2009 at 3:08pm
I got an invite, but none of my contacts did. I sent out my 8 invitations, but they still haven't been added. I am not complaining, not at all. I am real interested in playing around in there. Also interested in getting google voice working in there too. When I can get my email, phone and im working all together, I think the fat can get trimmed and we will see a useful product.
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