Hi all i strangely got an SMS from this website, thought i would have a look at it. http://bid4kite.com/home
Looks pretty dodgy to me, reminded me of the below website from a previous seabreeze post.
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/General/Indo-Scammers-at-it-again/
I have no idea how they got my mobile number, can only think they may have acquired it when i had a kite up here for sale recently
What do you all think of this site
DODGY??
or LEGIT???
My Vote would be for dodgy
The the fact that there's an italian language version of the site is a bit curious, unless run by italians.
Site's hosted in US for what it's worth, not Indo anyway.
Also it says
© Copyright 2014 by Bit4Kite. All Rights reserved.
at the bottom. Bid or Bit? Typo? Dodgy anyway.
Either way well done..if we keep informing each other then at least those that read the forums will have some further protection added to the alerts you can get through the buy and sell.
it is funny that all these scammer web pages all have a very similar set-out and graphic. maybe there is a "scammers r us" web design company kicking around 
Do you think limiting our contact details to members when using the classifiedswould help reduce this???
Interesting - looks like they are copying all of the adverts on seabreeze and posting them on their site.
They put up the right mobile phone contact details, but I wonder if they are aiming for some type of man-in-the-middle scam for online contact.
slunty scammers - we could've nuked the fwackers .. www.zdnet.com/article/how-anonymous-took-down-the-doj-riaa-mpaa-and-universal-music-websites/
This looks to me like some dude is trying to get an auction or classifieds for kiting off the ground.
Unfortunately he is scraping content from other sites, not cool. The fact that it's poorly designed and full of typos does not help. The ads are taken from SB and other sites. The phone numbers seem to be legit. I can't see a way that he/she is scamming money or goods from anyone. It probably cost him more to run it than what he makes with advertising banners.
Don't think this is the same kind of Indo scam, or am I missing a point here?
Looks like they are putting buyers in contact with sellers. I don't see what the scam would involve.
I don't think this is a scam.
I just think it is a poor attempt at bring an existing business model to the kiting niche.
I have come across a few of these site in other industries trying to amalgamate used for sale adds from lots of sites.
In theory I think its a valid idea.
These guys are just doing a bad job of doing it.
Hmm the site is back up it seems... 
Hey Galah and others with better skillz than me.
If you do this search
www.google.com.au/search?q=bid4kite+kiteforum&aq=f&oq=bid4kite+kiteforum&aqs=chrome.0.57j0.24519j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=bid4kite+legit&oq=bid4kite+legit&gs_l=serp.3...20522.21053.0.21773.5.5.0.0.0.0.204.974.0j4j1.5.0...0.0...1c.1.9.psy-ab.1JkhDgHYdH0&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45373924,d.aGc&fp=78c2367c9608c9f6&biw=1920&bih=912
ie "bid4kite legit" you can see what appears to me to be cached versions of ads on freelancer type websites, ie where they are trying to get indians to make their site for five bucks.
I don't have the leet skillz to access these actual ads or cached copies of them. But if you look at some of the text, in particular this one seems pretty sus to me. This is the creators of bid4kite talking...
"www.bid4kite.com/demo Before going online we need to fix some issues: .... Any legit bids please put the line "Not spam, I understand english" in your p.."
Now "any legit bids" sounds dodgy as hell to me. [}:)]
also
www.bid4kite.com/demo Before going online we need to fix some issues: .... work franchisee .100% Legitimate, Genuine & Scam Free Online Copy/Paste Jobs
Sounds dodgy, but I guess that's them recruiting for indians to do the copy/paste from seabreeze.
www.freelancer.com/projects/PHP/Fix-existing-site-before-going/
www.freelancer.ec/projects/Custom-Project-Mar.4355145.html
One of those is him 'lastangel' paying Sameer of Pakistan 270 Euros to fix the site, and paying another company 10 bucks US p/h to generate traffic.
^^^ ah yeah, I was saying bid4kite was still up not the other site.
Interesting links kiteboy, I sent the results of some googlefu to Laurie as I reckon I found a real name and email address for lastangel.
I found a windsurfing version too: <link removed, might serve malware>
It's not a scam in the way you are thinking.
Some would call it a 'temporary measure to increase legitimacy'
They skim the web for ads on other websites and they transfer them to their website. This increases traffic through their site. They then have the appearance that they are a popular and frequented site. Their money is either made through advertising (they are paid per unique visit) or through charging people to place their adverts.
