ext_210685 ([identity profile] zifferent.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] nemorathwald 2006-05-31 08:45 pm (UTC)

So I spent some time online trying to prove that this a spoof site.

I checked a Whois lookup:

Domain Name: LEFTBEHINDGAMES.COM
Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS1.TIERRA.NET
Name Server: NS2.TIERRA.NET
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 26-feb-2006
Creation Date: 08-jan-2002
Expiration Date: 15-apr-2007

Nothing odd there except that the account was originally created on the 8th of January 2002.

That jives because later I found that the company was started in October of 2001.

But I also saw in another article that the company supposedly went public earlier this year, and I was thinking "Gotcha" in that a stock ticker symbol would be almost impossible to fake. Well they exist even if they did change their ticker symbol recently:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LFBG.OB

It all seems to checkout. Except the checkout. Using a spamgourmet email address, impersonating Spuds McKenzie and using a previous job's street address I tryed to buy something. Now if I picked something free, it just spits me back out, but even if I select a non-free product the site NEVER went into secure mode,

My gut says it's a fake, but everything else seems real.

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