Flight sim spam or physhing

[aero-3fsx]

Anyone else getting strange emails with links to new products called "MS FSX 3D" & "Pro Flight Simulator"

They "smell" like physhing emails to me rather than spam but I was curious if other are getting them as they seem very targeted & I cannot determine where they come from (not any reputable FS developer or website I know)

[pmb]

All Pro Flight Simulator related mails are Scam. I keep getting them for years and had a recent peak in those mails a few weeks ago.

 

It's a repackaged FlightGear which is free (OpenSource).

 

Kind regards, Michael 

[Scott Harmes]

Hi,

 

Yes I have heard of this several times before on other forums.  I believe they were trying to sell a flight simulator that was available for free (or worse ).  I can't recall the name of the free flight simulator.  As I say I have read about similar occurrences several times before and they are usually advertising the same product with different names.  A search at Avsim came up with this:

 

http://www.avsim.com/topic/379479-professional-3-d-flight-simulator-spam/?hl=%2Bflight+%2Bsimulator+%2Bspam+%2Bmail

 

Needless to say you should not reply and mark these emails as spam.

 

Cheers,

[Scott Harmes]

Here are a couple of websites advertising the same free product for "just $67".

 

I found these by googling "professional 3d flight simulator"

 

NOTE: DO NOT BUY THESE PRODUCTS

 

http://www.virtualpilot3d.com/

 

http://flightprosim.com/

 

 

As Michael says above, the actual free simulator was/is called Flightgear:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlightGear

 

 

Cheers,

[Double J]

Been getting them for years, seems to have really exploded over the last year. As soon as you block one sending address they come up with 10 more. I have a good idea as to where they got my email from..not ORBX