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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  [Biography] bio   Moderator
Date Sat 15 Jul 2006 03:25 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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As soon as I saw "IT certification", "exam", and a completely new person, with a completely irrelevant and random question, I was pretty sure it was spam. I'm immediately suspicious of anything with "IT certification" in it. :P
David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org
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Posted by Samson   USA  (683 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Sat 15 Jul 2006 03:22 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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I wouldn't have spotted it as a spam if I hadn't been curious enough to click on the person's bio and notice that the only other post they made was the exact same thing. Damn spammers are getting rather tricky lately.
SmaugMuds.org: http://www.smaugmuds.org - The Smaug MUDs Community Center

"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth." -- George Orwell, 1984
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,770 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Fri 14 Jul 2006 11:06 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Ah, I didn't initially spot this as a spam message. :(

The frightening thing here is that there will be some people who will pass their IT exams, not on the basis of the knowledge they have, but because they can remember - parrot-fashion - the answers to the questions they got from a cheat sheet.

Just as well airlines have more rigorous tests for their pilots, or I might be truly worried. :)
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  [Biography] bio   Moderator
Date Fri 14 Jul 2006 02:58 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Same message by the same poster, too... this almost looks like there's a human behind it.
David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org
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Posted by Samson   USA  (683 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Fri 14 Jul 2006 01:25 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Ah... the bots are becoming more clever. Too bad they're not clever enough to avoid posting the same message a month later :)
SmaugMuds.org: http://www.smaugmuds.org - The Smaug MUDs Community Center

"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth." -- George Orwell, 1984
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Posted by Sara   (2 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Fri 14 Jul 2006 12:18 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]

Amended on Fri 14 Jul 2006 11:04 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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I used site XXXXXXXXX for my I.T certifications, I was surprised that the exam questions on my actual exam were exactly the same as provided – I don’t Know how this is happening, can anyone tell me about it?

Post edited by Nick to block out the site.
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