Software awards scam

UK based professional and shareware author Andy Brice was surprised at how well shareware sites were rating one of his apps and some of the apps that were in the same class so he ran an experiment.

He wrote a text file and turned it into an .exe file, which of course would never run. He then wrote a PAD file (similar to a read me file) that said this file doesn’t do anything at all.

He then just waited to see how many awards he would garner for this masterpiece and then he posted the results on his blog. The results were quite surprising. 16 awards in total for a file that did absolutely nothing, nadda, zip, zilch.

Link to article [Via Robert Clark]

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