Recently a URL started making its way around various social platforms, advertising what seemed to be an imminent South African AC/DC tour.

Hosted at zadc.co.za, which seemed to be a quite clever combination of AC/DC and ZA, it all seemed to good to be true. Far too good to be true in fact – Google-ing the tour dates revealed nothing planned by AC/DC, just this one website collecting e-mails over standard HTTP.

A bit of sleuthing (okay, a domain lookup) revealed the registrant’s email address, so I dropped him a mail asking what exactly was happening with this tour.

His response was not encouraging.

I clarified and included a screenshot of the domain. He replied.

So, I guess that’s it. No AC/DC tour, just a strangely elaborate attempt to… harvest email addresses?

On the bright side guys, it seems Slipknot and Iron Maiden are both coming to visit, so don’t get too sad.

Update:

It looks like the hosts have removed the page, accessing it now returns

Feeling down? See Yoda apply some Force Burn to Luke.