Recently a URL started making its way around various social platforms, advertising what seemed to be an imminent South African AC/DC tour.
Too good to be true?
Hosted at zadc.co.za, which seemed to be a quite clever combination of AC/DC and ZA, it all seemed to good to be true. Far too good to be true in fact – Google-ing the tour dates revealed nothing planned by AC/DC, just this one website collecting e-mails over standard HTTP.
A bit of sleuthing (okay, a domain lookup) revealed the registrant’s email address, so I dropped him a mail asking what exactly was happening with this tour.
His response was not encouraging.
This doesn’t look good
I clarified and included a screenshot of the domain. He replied.
Awww…
So, I guess that’s it. No AC/DC tour, just a strangely elaborate attempt to… harvest email addresses?
On the bright side guys, it seems Slipknot and Iron Maiden are both coming to visit, so don’t get too sad.
Update:
It looks like the hosts have removed the page, accessing it now returns
The website is gone, like our hopes.
Feeling down? See Yoda apply some Force Burn to Luke.
Standards.
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