Fake News Scam Sites Advertising On Real News Sites

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 26, 2009 @05:25AM from the maze-of-twisty-passages dept.

Virtual_Raider writes "Wired is running a story about a new twist in the never-ending quest to prove P. T. Barnum's adage. Old: Scammers are creating fake news sites that look almost like the real thing. New: They are advertising on real news sites, making it difficult for unwary readers to catch on they are being duped with fake coverage of get-rich-quick scams. Among those running the scam 'news' ads are the Huffington Post and Salon. From the article: 'The story has art, it has a sidebar, there's weather, supposed reader comments — even ads. Steadman is described as "a mother from San Francisco" — at least, when I read the article. Thanks to cutting-edge reporting techniques perfected by News 5, she will automatically move to the geolocation of your internet IP address when you read it. Look, she lives right in your neighborhood!'" Forbes also wrote about the scam news sites a couple of weeks back.

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Don't use Linux unless you hate yourself by Anonymous Coward · 2009-06-26 05:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Linux is a shitty OS that was designed by a bisexual man named Linus "Torn Anus" Torvalds who likes to go to the glory hole to have sex with Richard "Bathroom Stall Fellater" Stallman.