Spidey senses went off on this one... CircaCharge - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: blatboy
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 23, 2019, 04:20:51 pm
content: Maybe it's just the marketing copy, but this seems to me to be scammy. I saw this on a facebook post (paid ad methinks).https://lc-track.com/blog/circacharge/en/p/1/I'm paranoid that they're preying on our paranoia!

author: blatboy
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 23, 2019, 04:35:55 pm
content: Maybe it's the comments all written within the last "few hours" but of course there's no way to commentthe official site:https://www.circacharge.comI'm sure it's just 1 in a million device charging scams (or at very least, extreme over stating of capabilities)

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2019, 10:43:43 pm
content: Total BS just like Batterizer. Claiming the impossible with OOOOWWEEEEEWOOOO tech and technobabble.

author: Kean
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 24, 2019, 11:18:49 pm
content: Wow, total scam with BS info, fake special offer, and fake comments.The stuff about "Lisa Phan" in that first site you linked appears to be total garbage as well. No other reference to her to be found, not even on the actual CircaCharge site.Do a Google search on "circacharge scam" and you'll mostly get fake review sites trying to convice you it isn't a scam.And the actual CircaCharge site looks a bit more reasonable compared to that first one, but it is still just an over-hyped crappy wireless charger.

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2019, 11:22:26 pm
content: The names are fake.Just do a simple google search on the images.William DevonTaken from:James Slocumhttps://www.quora.com/Whats-good-to-do-in-Birmingham-UK-for-a-lone-traveller-on-a-Sunday-evening-particularly-live-music-late-night-art-etcMary VernonTaken from:Patricia Powell a writer at Disney.https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a2WmgCRWMVQJ:https://hatchimals.com-shop.live/deal/Hatchimals%2BCollEGGtibles%2B%2BGlittering%2BGarden%2BHatchy%2BHome%2BLightup%2BNest%2Bwith%2BExclusive%2BSeason%2B4%2BHatchimals%2BCollEGGtibles%252C%2Bfor%2BAges%2B5%2Band%2BUp/4337+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ukLooks like they did a poor job of not copying the picture but not the name.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 24, 2019, 11:57:12 pm
content: Yep, fake as anything article, blatantly obvious, and the team image is ripped off from a startup company called XYO Network:https://fastgrowingtech.com/sell-location-data

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2019, 12:48:37 am
content: That is so obvious that it is something like the premise that email scams are deliberately written to look dodgy to the perceptive reader. That weeds out the people who won't be gullible enough and leaves the truly clueless "marks".

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 25, 2019, 01:24:46 am
content: Quote from: Richard Crowley on February 25, 2019, 12:48:37 amThat theory has always made sense to me, I wonder if there has been any actual study on it?

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2019, 07:17:02 pm
content: Maybe we can try reporting them to their "affiliates".

author: blatboy
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 25, 2019, 10:38:48 pm
content: yeah... I thought that photo of the team was fake... amazing you found the original haha

author: ebastler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 28, 2019, 10:55:30 pm
content: Quote from: blatboy on February 25, 2019, 10:38:48 pmEasily found via Google Image Search:https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=ENClick on the camera icon ("search by image"), then enter the URL of the ripped-off image. Google will find pages which contain the same image, or similar ones (cropped, different resolution etc.).

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 01, 2019, 05:13:57 pm
content: Quote from: Richard Crowley on February 25, 2019, 12:48:37 amAlthough I'm not quite sure this is 100% deliberate, I have also noticed that. This could be a way to explicitely target gullible users indeed, while possibly lowering liability in case of legal trouble (they can then always try and show that the emails are not fraudulent as they clearly appear as not genuine... don't know if that would hold, but could be an approach.)In many cases though, one of the main things that look dodgy is the writing, and that may not be always deliberate. Many of these email scams come from countries where people doing that have a very poor command of english (or other) language.