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The SEC and Fake Investment Sites
An anonymous reader sent in: "Our web-based challenge for the day: find the SEC's fake investment sites! The SEC claims to have seeded the web with fake investment sites in order to teach naive web users and investors about the dangers of believing all you read and investing without research. These sites have telltale signs of online investment fraud, and if people manage to overlook or ignore those issues and attempt to invest money, informs them that they have made an unwise decision. The SEC says that these sites are intended to encourage wise investing decisions, or in more casual terms, to attempt to slap fools upside the head with a cluestick before they lose their money in a real scam. It's an interesting use of the web by a government-related agency."
Taco has shit in his oatmeal one too many times. Now he's pissed off a large portion of his readership and no one is posting anymore.
Way to go, Taco! I give Slashdot 4 months at best before VA dumps it or you totally rearrange the attitudes and moderation system here.
-txr
http://www.gppf.org/events/oswindle.htm Shows the FTC doing the exact same thing and discussing it in the 1990's. Sheesh, stuff from 3-5 years ago isn't exactly new :-)
Just check Google for matching phrases! http://www.wemarket4u.net/prosperity/
The electric yellow has got me by the brain banana
Here are the results of the domains owned by the SEC according to the whois database at network solutions:
WINDHANDEL.COM
SEC-CIVIL.COM
SECRECRUITMENT.COM
SEC-NL.COM
OPERATIONDESERTFOX.COM
DOUZALS.COM
SEC (SE463-ORG) no.valid.email@WORLDNIC.NET 619 487 7988
MCWHORTLE.COM
Way to say it, bruthah. Maybe the dearth of posts is because all of the interesting posters have been IP banned.
The IP ban is slash-leech's own form of CENSORSHIP. Even your truthful and insightful post has been modded to troll status, because it does not tow the line. Note, you are not "offtopic", but a "troll". Why? Because you don't sing the praises of slashditz to the high heavens. Soon, you too will be censored via IP banning.
Slashdot is still the stupidest, leechiest site in the web, with "stories" posted by two bit hacks and leeches who can't come up with their own original content to save their sorry butts. This is the only place in the world where a 4 paragraph "review" of a video game passes for legitimate content. Pathetic!
Good luck slashidiots, you're going to need it when this site collapses and you have to find work in the real world. I just pray to g*d that I'm still here to see it happen.
we are just puppets for the editors.
Tricking someone into acting illegally isn't necessarily entrapment. Otherwise there would be no sting operations. Entrapment requires harassment or continual provocation -- that is, forcing someone into doing something they normally would not.
First, this isn't entrapment - they're not going to prosecute people for trying to give money to these fake sites.
Second, the theoretical FBI tactic you describe sounds very much like entrapment (IANAL), which is very illegal.
Frankly, I'm amazed and gratified to see a government agency making such good use of the web.
This isn't as much "normalization" as it is "don't take so many drugs when you're designing tables."
You've got to understand, this isn't "Yahoo". You're just looking at PR Newswire, which is a dumping ground for anyone to send in advertisements (er, "press-releases") for a fee.
This is one of the many tactics that I would *expect* of a competent scammer.
Close, it has nothing to do with what they normally would or would not do. Entrapment just means that someone from the law enforcement side coerced an individual into committing a crime that they would not have done without that coercion.
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For example, if you have a drug dealer who ceased dealing and an officer ask for one more deal and the dealer gets busted, it would fall under entrapment. Entrapment also does not require harassment or continual provocation.
Entrapment is the act of luring an individual into a previously or otherwise uncontemplated illegal act.
IANAL, but try to keep up on laws
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
Looks like they recently changed their stock symbol
That's because they got kicked off the NYSE. Only NYSE stocks have ticker symbols of 3 or fewer characters. As an OTC stock, they had to pick a new symbol.
http://www.wemarket4u.net/
It looks like they've been doing this for around two years now.
Actually, the first thing that came to my mind was:
Finally! A real explanation for ZeoSync!
(For those who haven't been keeping up, ZeoSync is the company that claims to have broken / bypassed Shannon's laws of information entropy to create some sort of encoding or compression that can compress random data. Except that they don't call it compression - they call it "Information Crystals" or something equally stupid.)
I asked for and got ZeoSync's Investors Package, and it truly has some strange stuff in it... they are suing some previous employees, have some financial stuff that looks weird even to me (I know very little about corporate finance), and those computer scientists that are so prominently featured on their web site are not actually associated with the company - ZeoSync just paid them (an unspecified amount) for some sort of unspecified consulting. Basically meaningless.
They admit in the fine print that the alleged "technology" has never been demoed to anyone outside the company...
Really, I would not be surprised if ZeoSync was an elaborate ruse to teach gullible investors a lesson.
Torrey Hoffman (Azog)
"HTML needs a rant tag" - Alan Cox
Go to the front page here, to see how many suckers each site has gotten:
http://www.wemarket4u.net/
Twoflower
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