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phoronix
07-25-2007, 10:00 PM
Phoronix: The Medison Laptop, A Mordacious Scam?

Making news on the Internet in the past 24 hours has been the "Medison Celebrity Laptop", which claims to be a $150 USD laptop that ships with an Intel Celeron 1.5GHz processor, a 14" LCD screen, 802.11g wireless, and uses Fedora Linux. For such a low price this looks like an incredible deal, but its validity can be questioned.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NTkyNA

loswillios
07-26-2007, 06:09 AM
sounds too good to be true

alienvenom
07-26-2007, 11:31 AM
This laptop was mentioned on Slashdot as well as many other news sites a while back:

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/07/25/1519256.shtml

The Slashdot article was updated after it was posted, too:

"Update 2035 GMT by SM: As many readers have pointed out, the more you dig into the details of this company the more fishy it starts to seem. I would suggest any potential buyers be wary on this one."

newbynoog
07-26-2007, 03:02 PM
I started looking into medison. If you do a whois on medison.se you see no admin or tech contact.
If you do the same on medisoncelebrity.com then you see a few interesting things. The contact there is the CEO, who has an interesting e-mail address.

<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v336/newbynoog/?action=view&current=scam.jpg">Whois Screenshot</a>

alienvenom
07-26-2007, 06:40 PM
# whois medisoncelebrity.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.


Domain Name: MEDISONCELEBRITY.COM
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.enom.com
Referral URL: http://www.enom.com
Name Server: NS1.SURF-TOWN.NET
Name Server: NS2.SURF-TOWN.NET
Name Server: NS3.SURF-TOWN.NET
Status: ok
Updated Date: 11-apr-2007
Creation Date: 11-apr-2007
Expiration Date: 11-apr-2008

>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:39:16 UTC <<<

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Visit AboutUs.org for more information about medisoncelebrity.com
<a href="http://www.aboutus.org/medisoncelebrity.com">AboutUs: medisoncelebrity. com</a>

Registration Service Provided By: Surftown Domains
Contact: dns@surf-town.net
Visit: http://www.support.surftown.com/

Domain name: medisoncelebrity.com

Registrant Contact:

Valdi Ivancic (valdi_ivancic@hotmail.com)
+46.707572858
Fax:
Lundenvagen 24
Huskvarna, 561 34
SE

Administrative Contact:

Valdi Ivancic (valdi_ivancic@hotmail.com)
+46.707572858
Fax:
Lundenvagen 24
Huskvarna, 561 34
SE

Technical Contact:
Surftown A/S
DNS Administrator (dns@surf-town.net)
+45.70200776
Fax: +45.70200776
Lautrupsgade 9, 1
KÿFFFFF8benhavn ÿFFFFD8, 2100
DK

Status: Active

Name Servers:
ns1.surf-town.net
ns2.surf-town.net
ns3.surf-town.net

Creation date: 11 Apr 2007 19:04:10
Expiration date: 11 Apr 2008 19:04:10
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No need for a random screenshot link. :)