[Tutor] WARNING: Course for free on 100 Python Challenges to Boost Your Python Skills

[Richard Damon]

On 2/2/20 8:29 PM, DL Neil via Tutor wrote:
> On 3/02/20 8:28 PM, anton klem wrote:
>>   [image: Capture.PNG]
>> Now the course is 100% free From this link
>>   http://gestyy.com/w7L3H0
>
>
> Maybe my computer's security system is too strong, but after following 
> three levels of invitation to 'click-here', even the "Download" button 
> didn't deliver! (except loads of advertising pop-ups)
>
> I was unable to find the course on Udacity (not that they make that 
> task v.easy), therefore was not able to establish either the 
> authenticity of the claims, or the authority of the sender to make the 
> course-materials available.
>
> Not having seen this name on the list before, and noting the huge 
> number of recipients, be aware that this 'invitation' is probably 
> mass-marketing, or worse.

And if you look at the list of recipients, it includes some that are 
clearly invalid (example.com) and some that appear to be file names that 
just happened to have a @ in them (I don't know of a .png top level 
domain), so the list appears to have come from some form of crude web 
scraping with no thought to edit.

-- 
Richard Damon