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By Beachhutman Posted Thursday 18th October 2007 03:42 GMT

I'm getting several of these attacks a day now here in China where we use Skype for contacts with overseas clients and suppliers. The websites look like this one, which isn't very clever when sent to an obviously English-speaking user!:

http://skype dot gx dot cn/tom

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