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Comments · 17

  1. Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on "Disposable" Cell Phone Actually Repackaged Nokia

    What really surprises me is how similar the Hop-On website is to the known scam education website that the US Securities and Exchange Commission is using to educate people about website investment scams.

  2. the SEC is making it tougher to Google for these by awharnly · · Score: 1 · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    From http://www.mcwhortle.com/robots.txt

    Disallow: /stats/>
    Disallow: /financials.htm
    Disallow: /onlinebid.htm


    which means that we can't just search for other web sites with a "don't be a fool" page like the onlinebid.htm page at mcwhortle.

  3. How much of this is slashdot? :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    http://www.mcwhortle.com/stats/usage_200201.html (found from robots.txt) - So far we've got them up to 0.9GB, at hundreds of thousands of hits. Reload and enjoy watching the slashdot effect in real time =). Oh, and let's hear a cheer for the SEC for doing this the economical/intelligent way!

  4. How much of this is slashdot? :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    http://www.mcwhortle.com/stats/usage_200201.html (found from robots.txt) - So far we've got them up to 0.9GB, at hundreds of thousands of hits. Reload and enjoy watching the slashdot effect in real time =). Oh, and let's hear a cheer for the SEC for doing this the economical/intelligent way!

  5. Photoshopping Job by BradNelson · · Score: 1 · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    The SEC even took pictures of buildings and photoshopped the name of their "company" onto them.

    http://www.mcwhortle.com/mcwbldg.jpg

    Photoshoppers apply now.

  6. Re:If the rest didn't tip you off, this should.. by nologin · · Score: 1 · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    Or this graphic. Looks like someone got some buttons from a phone but forgot to include the middle column.

    It would really suck if you couldn't input the digits 2,5,8 and 0.

  7. Re:Rock on SEC!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    Oh plz! You dont think this is fake?? look at the image. Underpaid, gov M$ paint artists.

  8. Re:whois mcwhortle.com by dgoodman · · Score: 2 · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    After Google performs its next crawl, we only have to search for text from this page, and voila!

  9. Re:whois mcwhortle.com by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 2 · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    I submitted this site to slashdot, complete with the bait "too bad the thing runs Windows CE". Unfortunately, it got through the wonderful fact checking of the slashdot crew.

  10. bad HTML is a giveaway by option8 · · Score: 2, Insightful · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    any site that fails to use a BGCOLOR tags in its body definition immediately comes under suspicion. i browse using netscape, and the default background color for undefined pages is "Netscape Grey" and not white, as it is under explorer.

    as soon as i see graphics with white halos hovering on a grey background, i know the site is run by an inexperienced webmaster, and any information on the site is likely fraudulent.

    take, for example, Slashdot's light mode...

  11. All your scams are belong to us! by SimHacker · · Score: 1, Troll · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites
    You can see the text jaggies in the "mcwhortle" logo on the image of the building.

    Government photo forgers: next time use antialiased text, or at least forge the pictures at a higher resolution, then scale it down to a smaller size to get rid of the seams and jaggies.

    Other than that, it's a great anti-scam!

    -Don

  12. Re:whois mcwhortle.com by GuyZero · · Score: 1 · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites
    And they drop the other shoe at http://www.mcwhortle.com/financials.htm

    They describe how it's an example of how this could have been a big scam.

  13. Re:whois mcwhortle.com by ftobin · · Score: 4, Interesting · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    On their About page, they have an image of their building. The sign on the building is a sorry attempt at making it look seamless.

    I wonder which building is pictured, anyways. Maybe all the SEC's 'scam sites' use the same buildling.

    Doing a Google search for 'mcwhorgle', one finds out that the SEC even got Yahoo to have a length article on the SEC pre-approving its IPO. Interesting that they put that much work into it.

  14. Re:whois mcwhortle.com by ftobin · · Score: 4, Interesting · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    On their About page, they have an image of their building. The sign on the building is a sorry attempt at making it look seamless.

    I wonder which building is pictured, anyways. Maybe all the SEC's 'scam sites' use the same buildling.

    Doing a Google search for 'mcwhorgle', one finds out that the SEC even got Yahoo to have a length article on the SEC pre-approving its IPO. Interesting that they put that much work into it.

  15. Re:whois mcwhortle.com by ftobin · · Score: 4, Interesting · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    On their About page, they have an image of their building. The sign on the building is a sorry attempt at making it look seamless.

    I wonder which building is pictured, anyways. Maybe all the SEC's 'scam sites' use the same buildling.

    Doing a Google search for 'mcwhorgle', one finds out that the SEC even got Yahoo to have a length article on the SEC pre-approving its IPO. Interesting that they put that much work into it.

  16. If the rest didn't tip you off, this should.. by MattRog · · Score: 1 · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    http://mcwhortle.com/mcwbldg.jpg

    Couldn't they have done a better photoshopping job on that 'logo' on the side of the building? Or even better, since this website (like everything in the government) cost around 10X more expensive than it should have been to make I bet they could've afforded a simple 'iron-on' banner to place on the side of the building.

  17. Looks like a lot of the Spam I've been getting... by Trekologer · · Score: 2 · on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites

    If you look at the testimonials, it reads just like the typical MLM/"Not MLM!" scam spams that I've been getting lately, complete with the vague (un)identifying info. But this really begs the question: Why are people stupid enough to fall for these scams in the first place? I am strongly convinced that a majority of Americans are completely braindead.