[ubuntu-uk] OT: Poundland

Jason Liquorish jason at dropshock.com
Tue Mar 3 22:25:39 GMT 2009


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David King wrote:
> Sounds like it is worthwhile. I get emails from online stores offering 
> the same sort of deal, such 99 p or so for a 1 GB USB drive. But when I 
> factor in the cost of delivery, it will be more like £7 for a 1 GB drive.
> 
> So I really must check out this Poundland offer. I tried looking for the 
> Poundland website, but Google told me that poundland.com contained 
> malicious code and would not let me directly visit it. Wikipedia listed 
> the site as being at poundland.co.uk, which when I tried to access it, I 
> got a warning saying it was a Reported Attack Site. But I visited the 
> site anyway, with the NoScript actively blocking the scripts. I am 
> guessing that someone has probably hacked the site and put code on there 
> recently.
>  
> I looked around the website but could not find any sign of USB flash drives.
> 
> 
> David King

Popped into my local Poundland (Nottingham) and could not find anything,
nearest thing was a no-name USB hub.

Thanks for posting this anyway, good luck to anyone else looking.

Regards

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Jason Liquorish - <jason at dropshock.com>
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