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I frequent a website named sprintusers.com, which is a forum for all SprintNextel related stuff.

Today (7/30/) I got an online blackjack website when I tried visiting this site. It seems very fishy to me. I was wondering where I could go to figure out what's going on or to verify a site's authenticity. Thanks.

W00t1991
2010-08-01 08:07:00
use AVG link checker it's a freeware and works with windows and most web browsers ( google it )
Jack Cola
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2010-08-01 02:10:00
It looks like a pretty reputable website to me - but William may be right.Also, when I try to log on to the forums, it says that the administrator has banned my IP address, so either they only want to target a specific country, or the site has been hacked.
William Brand
2010-07-31 01:22:00
Here's what I was able to find:The domain is owned by an Indian man and has been owned by him for years now. He appears to mass-purchase domains and then sells a service where he links to websites from those domains in order to boost your Google ranking. It might be possible this whole time SprintUsers was a fake forum set up to further linking out?However, in searching Google seemed to have indexed a few threads from Sprintusers.com which mentioned being hijacked. I can't tell you how old they were or what they said.Anyway, judging by the owner of the domain I wouldn't put much faith in it coming back.