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Prank Website Offers $49 HP TouchPads

August 28, 2011 by  
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With technophiles still scrambling to get their hands on the remaining Hewlett-Packard’s $99 TouchPads, a $49 deal just seems too good to be true.

And, as the thousand or so people who tried to buy cheap TouchPads on an HP look-alike website Tuesday learned, one should think twice about seemingly unbelievable deals.

The prank site — registered Tuesday as Hewlett-packard.org.uk — looks legitimate. In fact, many of the links on the site go to real HP addresses.

But anyone who tries to purchase the $49 TouchPad gets Rickrolled. It’s a popular type of Internet prank where the victim clicks on a seemingly irresistible link — a $49 TouchPad, or a sneak copy of a Kim Kardashian wedding video — and ends up instead sitting through a YouTube clip of schmaltzy soul singer Rick Astley singing his 1987 hit, “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

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