#Half life 3 confirmed meme cracked
The third site offers a cracked version of the beta. "Signup with Tara to unlock download." At the time of Boyd's screenshots, there were just '51' remaining 'downloads.' Urgency is often a key aspect of scams. The second is a clear survey scam: "Win an iPhone 5," it says.
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It offers a 'get my beta key' button that currently does nothing. The first claims that a closed beta program will commence in about five months' time (there's a countdown clock ticking away the days, hours, minutes and seconds). The fake page "is serviceable if a touch on the bland side." It tries to look like the real Steam store and lists Half-Life 3 as coming "Fall 2013." But, commented Boyd, "As anybody even remotely familiar with the Half-Life series would know, part 3 in the series has already attained the status of myth, with a seemingly never-ending supply of “No, it isn’t coming out” type stories from across the Internet (so much so that “Half-Life 3 confirmed” is a meme and has been for many years)."īoyd lists three other fake sites: halflife3beta(dot)org, com and net.
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"The real thing would be store(dot)steampowered(dot)com," he says. This morning he warns that the 'brutal truth' that there is no Half-Life 3 "doesn’t mean there aren’t a lot of Half-Life 3 fakeouts doing the rounds." He points to one example, using typosquatting, at store(dot)stearnpowered(dot)com, where the 'rn' is easily mistaken for an 'm'.
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Christopher Boyd is a Senior Threat Researcher for ThreatTrack Security.