Carphone Warehouse Fans – Astroturf?

My blog has been found by a coven of Carphone Warehouse fans, it seems. Three new comments in seven minutes on an old post. Crikey. And all of them about how wonderful the company is. You may recall I had a bit of a run-in with the company a month or so ago. But everything was apparently cleared up.

Let’s see. Ah. None of them leave web addresses. All of them have hotmail addresses, ones which keep them anonymous.

Yet… all of them have the same IP address. How bizarre! Three people, same IP address within seven minutes!

Author : debiy (IP: 213.52.212.129 , 213.52.212.129) E-mail : garlandsbuzzer@hotmail.com

URI :

Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=213.52.212.129

Author : Caroline (IP: 213.52.212.129 , 213.52.212.129) E-mail : carolinebabegenius1982@hotmail.com

URI :

Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=213.52.212.129

Author : Hayley Davies (IP: 213.52.212.129 , 213.52.212.129) E-mail : hayley2133@hotmail.com

URI :

Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=213.52.212.129

So that new law about Unfair Promotional Practices… how does it go again?

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2 Comments

  1. Posted July 24, 2008 at 9:29 am | Permalink

    Oh dear.

  2. Posted July 24, 2008 at 9:50 am | Permalink

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