There is someone posing as Arn, asking for promo requests for macrumors.com, using the obviously incriminating email address [email protected] Look out for this idiot. I had a little fun with him today, sent a bunch of random numbers, started up a conversation and told him what I thought if him. What really irritates me isn't the fact he is trying to steal codes but that there might be developers out there waiting for a macrumors feature to drag their apps into the limelight.
Yea, I saw a developer posting about this on twitter. You'd think if he was so desprate for free apps he'd just jailbreak his device (not that I think stealing apps via jailbreaking is right, just that it seems like a much eaiser way to get apps for free...)
ya, we don't send out promo requests generally. (either macrumors or toucharcade). So, be suspect. arn
From "Adam Braverman" I presume. Yeah he's fake. We get a hefty amount of these emails, and it's a good idea to check their domain they are emailing from, and request an email to be sent using the correct domain for verification purposes instead of gmail or hotmail.
He wrote to us a few weeks ago. I asked him to send e-mail from @macrumors.com e-mail address, and he never replied back. Cheers, ILIYA
Yep this is the mail I got... Hi On behalf of*http://www.macrumors.com/*I would like to know if we could have a Free iTunes Code for your Applications so we could review them for our website's special holiday/year end app review bash? Cheers, Macrumors. Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. Arn confirmed this was not legit so keep a look out
Got the same thing. I thought it was a little strange that Arn was sending me such a poorly written, impersonal email
Special Holiday? Year End? This guy must be living in the paaasssttt! I got this email as well, he asked for iType2Go's promo code.. I was quite happy for a while until I noticed the Hotmail tag.. gotcha! So, I sent him some nonsense promo-impersonator-code.. and guess what, he responded back by saying thanks and that he will reply soon with a draft of the review.. LOL!!
Hello friends, I have 18.000.000 US Promo Codes from a customer who just passed away. I need someone to help me get them out of the country. I am willing to give him 20% of the codes. Please get in touch with me for more details.
Funny, just got one of these today and was searching the email address because I figured no way someone from macrumors uses an @live address -- I mean, MS owns it! He must be just generally spamming app developers with games in the top 100 sold, since I doubt he actually wants our apps for preschoolers .
Yep, definitely sent this putz a code, although I did pause at the live.com address. Live and learn I guess. Maybe he left a good review.
Given the amount of shady business going on in the App Store, I would be amazed to find a developer who requests promo codes from "competitors" and than leaves fake bad reviews. I can easily register macroumorrs.com and get through unnoticed.
What an idiot, really if you have nothing better to do than try to rip off Dev's you really have no life. I have an idea on a decent prank to pull on that guy, hopefully I can scare the crap out of him, that idiots going down.
