Dreamweaver CS3 Showing up in SPAM

I guess now that Dreamweaver CS3 is getting some press, the spammers think they can make a buck on it. I have been getting a LOT of spam lately advertising CS3 at ridiculously low prices. The last one? “Our price $59.95. You save $339.05″. I say – bullshit. And in the ad, they didn’t even directly link to the website. It says I have to type it directly into my browser. And, of course, the link is part of the image so that it is not scannable by spam filters. At the bottom of the email is the classic “spam poetry”, where they type a bunch of poetic crap they copy/pasted from somewhere in order to try to fool the filters.

I went and checked out the website URL. I did it in one of my virtual machines that way my PC would not be affected if this was nothing but a hoax to attempt to infect my PC with something. What I see is a totally legit looking website that is advertising TONS of downloable software for sale. And we’re not talking shareware either. We’re talking full application programs such as Dreamweaver (of course), Quickbooks, AutoCad, Office 2007 and more. There is no mention anywhere on the site addressing the question on whether this is legit or not. Chances of it being legit are basically none. These companies just don’t license their software like this. I did a WHOIS lookup on the domain and, sure enough, it is a company registered out of Beijing, China.

I sure hope nobody falls for this garbage. I’m not even going to publish the link in this blog post. I don’t want to help them with the publicity. Dreamweaver is a fantastic product and if you intend to use it, fork over the dough for a REAL license.

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