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LiveMocha reemerging...?

Postby Cainntear » Wed Aug 26, 2020 1:44 pm

I've just spotted a site at http://www.livemochas.com [plural] claiming copyright 2020 LiveMocha LLC. A websearch shows a Seattle address for the company... an address that Google says is a Rosetta Stone office (unsurprisingly, given that RS bought LiveMocha years ago). But the livemocha.com [singular] site still redirects to Rosetta Stone's homepage, which is curious.

All seems very, very dubious, particularly when looking at the about page:
As the world’s largest online language learning community, Livemocha fuses traditional learning methods with online practice and interaction with native language speakers from around the world. Livemocha delivers an unparalleled learning experience that promises conversational fluency. Since launching in 2007, the Livemocha community has grown to over 14 million members from over 195 countries, highlighting the international demand for an engaging and collaborative approach to language learning. Today the livemocha was reborn after the closing of the system by another company, but a developer decided to continue the primary idea, so we are recreating livemocha to improve and be the best network of language learners in the world, since we said that our network will never be charged and will never be sold or closed, we will be maintained by voluntary donations from our members.

So some random has nicked the branding, and taken part of the spiel from when the original site was the world's biggest language learning site, and is claiming to be the same site and the same community, and saying that a database of 14 million users that he doesn't even have is somehow bigger than Duolingo's database of 300 million...

I certainly won't be handing over any personal information.
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Re: LiveMocha reemerging...?

Postby annelions » Wed Aug 26, 2020 3:54 pm

Somehow, I don't think an American company (even if they are a language company) would be using "Plugin de comentários do Facebook"

Or responding to English comments on Google Play in Portuguese.

Estamos na faze beta amigo, se quiser deixar sua sugestão use o site livemochas.com


It's registered and hosted by GoDaddy. Suspicious.
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Re: LiveMocha reemerging...?

Postby Gordafarin2 » Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:04 pm

One of the languages in its list is "Hindu". There are several other errors scattered around the homepage - this doesn't smell right.
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Re: LiveMocha reemerging...?

Postby Kraut » Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:08 pm

https://learn.livemochas.com/tutor.php? ... e&p=tuto-1
They use Google text -to-speech voices.
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Re: LiveMocha reemerging...?

Postby garyb » Thu Aug 27, 2020 12:00 pm

Well, I was missing all the catfishing messages since LiveMocha shut down. Does this mean they'll all be from beautiful Brazilians on this new version?
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Re: LiveMocha reemerging...?

Postby annelions » Thu Aug 27, 2020 12:12 pm

I emailed Rosetta Stone to ask if they still own the LiveMocha brand because, well, they might have sold it or something (doubtful). The response I got was that, yes, they still own LiveMocha but the URL is for livemochaS and so that's obviously not the same thing. I don't think they even looked at the site. If they're fine with people getting scammed in their name, who am I to stop them?
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