ProFlightSimulator - the Scam Lives On

In this newest iteration of Whack-A-Mole, the ProFlightSimulator scam is back.  Now it's fronted by a website called GamerXtreme.  GamerXtreme gives you two scams for the price of one:  Pro Flight Simulator Suite (yes, that's right, Suite) and Flight Simulator Plus.  Um, don't worry, they're identical.  And they're still ripoffs of Flight Gear and its add-ons.  I don't thnk the two scams use duplicate screen shots, but they both contain screen shots stolen from websites of FlightGear and its fans.  You'll recognize every screenshot.

Dan Freeman, the sock puppet that flogged ProFlightSimulator, is flogging PFSSuite.  And FSPlus introduces us to a new sock puppet, Huge Miller.  Yes, that's right:  his first name is "Huge", spelled H-U-G-E.  Either English is not his inventor's native language, or his inventor is just plain stupid, or Huge is a real person and that's his real name and his mama didn't like him.  Hmm - which do you think is more probable?

Remember Ed Dale?  His testimonial is reprinted for PFSSuite (word for word), but his alter ego, Wayne Mayer, is gone.  Oh, both packages have some really beautiful bogus testimonials.  They're almost believable.  And there's no duplication.  Some of the pictures looked like they were harvested from the scam-the-Nigerian-scammer webpages.

And, as with the previous versions of this scam, there's page after page of breathless, in-your-face hype about the products.  Seriously, it's like reading a Ron Popeil script, complete with "NOW how much would you pay?", "But wait, there's more!", "If you order now, we'll give you a bonus", and of course "Satisfaction guaranteed, or your money back."  Don't believe a word of it.

It's still the same scam, mutated and bifurcated.  Don't fall for it.  If you're tempted to buy one of these packages, don't.  Instead, go and download the real thing, the original, the non-ripoff version:  FlightGear.

Also, please tell your friends about this.  Seriously, say something about it on Facebook.  Tweet about it.  Put something on your blog.  Click on the "X" in the upper right-hand corner of the Facebook ad, and report it to FB as "Misleading."  If enough of us do this, eventually it won't be worth "Dan Freeman's" time to continue the charade, and he'll drop it permanently.  Maybe.