Spoof site mocks 1Malaysia e-mail
(FMT) PETALING JAYA: In the wake of the controversy surrounding the 1Malaysia e-mail project, an anonymous parody of the e-mail service has surfaced to mock the government-supported initiative.
FMT was alerted to the existence of the website (http://1myemail.com/), which was entitled “Free 1Malaysia Email: Not worth RM50,000,000” by a reader after she accidentally stumbled across the webpage when searching for information about the “real” 1Malaysia Email (http://myemail.my/).
A check revealed that one could sign up for a free e-mail account with the address suffix of “@1myemail.com” at the spoof site.
The e-mail utilises Microsoft’s Windows Live platform, the same one that Tricubes Bhd, the company behind the 1Malaysia e-mail service, is expected to use. The site made it clear that it was poking fun at the service by saying, “This e-mail service is run by Windows Live Admin Center, just like the infamous myemail.my service.”
The parody site also touted other “features” of its service: “No email address created here will be sold to anyone, especially not to the Malaysian government.”
“Your email address is your own, you can name it whatever you want. No one will force you to use your IC number as your email address,” it said.
It also said there would be no charges for any e-mail sent or received and database would not be shared with anyone.
However, the only “decent” thing that can be said about the website is that it has security features and anti-spam measures that similar to Microsoft’s Hotmail service.
The site also asked users to tell other people about its “FREE service”.
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