Man living off Groupons for one year breaks a New York start-up’s website

Re:Man living off Groupons for one year breaks a New York st... by pavel_lishin on Monday March 21, 2011 @10:13PM (#2352681)

> “At first, we suspected that it was a scam, until we Googled the guy’s name.”

What does this even mean? "This guy sure is trying to import a lot of data. Clearly he's trying to scam us."

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Re:Man living off Groupons for one year breaks a New York st... by reinhardt on Monday March 21, 2011 @10:30PM (#2352746)

What's strange about it ? Any unusual behavior can be suspect. Also "suspected" implies possibility, pretty much the opposite of "clearly".

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Re:Man living off Groupons for one year breaks a New York st... by cherylyeoh on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @01:13AM (#2353219)

Agreed. We were just surprised, since our highest user at that point only had 85 vouchers (It's 149 now), then this guy comes around with thousands. We thought it was a fake account, but it turned out to be a real user.

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Re:Man living off Groupons for one year breaks a New York st... by pavel_lishin on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @09:18AM (#2354166)

While I understand that it's suspicious - as in, out of the norm - but what kind of a scam would it have been?

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Re:Man living off Groupons for one year breaks a New York st... by ticky on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @09:39AM (#2354259)

LOL - "scam" is probably the wrong word to use. More like a "prank" or some sort of DOS.

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