Name and shame? hxxps://www.diy-laptoprepair .com/forum/Supermicro-X11SCA-F-repair-guide-schematics.html (link edited in this way they won’t get the SEO)

It seems legit at a glance, but then, the link is super generic (technozblog .com/motherboard.html) and all the comments don’t make sense as they are disconnected from each other and linking to completely unrelated stuff

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    1 year ago

    The purpose is to trick the user in to clicking the fake link and waste 5 euro for the fake “survey” with those fake waits and fake countdowns leading ultimately to an error 404

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    How do they make money on the surveys? Scamming requires a loser. I never understood that

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      They call them surveys but at the end of the 100 fake questions they ask a credit card for “verification” - at that point you’re silently forwarded to a different website where you subscribe to a scam service at 49 euro / month with a 7 day trial for 1 euro. This fine print is written in grey on a grey background, the victim at this point is tired to read from the 100s of fake questions and just says yes to everything. Chrome credit card auto fill helps the process by requiring just one extra click instead of typing the numbers. The user just want that manual/game/document and ran out of patience from fake countdowns and fake loading bars “checking if the file is available”