New fake news sites say "catch me if you can!"
Let's face it. Until anonymous corporation and secret banking loopholes are closed for good, the big "law enforcement show" from the likes of the FTC, AGs, and other law enforcement agencies is just that…a show to make it seem like scammers are on the run.
Well, so far that certainly doesn't seem to be the case. In fact it seems more like the scammers are saying "catch me if you can!" For example, take some of the new fake news sites popping up.
Many of them make claims that are significantly more preposterous than the ones made by the sites in the original WorkAtHomeTruth post called Are Fake News Sites the Next Gold Rush?
For example, the sites CompanyTest.org and CompanyRecruit.com make the following bizarre and completely untrue statement in their fake news reports:
"Google has now officially released their new "work from home" system out to the public. There will be thousand of spots available that are expected to go very soon in the next few days.
The way this works is very simple, Google says.
First you will need to apply for their work from home kits. Google has release a limited amount of kits, all distributed through local websites in your area, which will cost $1.97 of shipping and handling to the public.
Google says this charge is made to cover shipping costs but also to separate the people that are serious about working with them through this program.
Once you have ordered your kit (if you are one of the lucky few to get availability in your area) then you will receive a package that will contain all the instructions you need to start working from home for the online titan."
Don't believe any of this for a moment. This is all just a new variation of the old Make Money Posting Links on Google Scam explained by Michael Brown here.
The other BIG WIN for the fake news sites is their addition of the Consumer Reports logo to the traditional misleading As Seen and Trusted On ABC, CBS, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, USA Today, Forbes, and AOL statement.
It's pretty tough to keep up with all the fake news sites as they continue to pop up like weeds. Just a very quick search popped up a whole new list of them that weren't covered in the original post about fake news…
- www.BizNews7.org | Maria Gonzalez
- www.BreakingGroundNewsAlert.net | Marie Thompson story
- www.Careers–Weekly.com | Andrea Wilmington story
- www.CompanyRecruit.com | Mary
- www.CompanyTest.org
- www.ConsumerTipsWeeklyNow.com | Charlie Thompson story
- www.ConsumerGuideWeekly.com | Nicole Johnson story
- www.Daily-Economic-News.com | Darren and Holly Hansen story
- www.Dallas-Herald.com | Jerry Steadman story
- www.DailyOnlineNewsletter.com | Jason Richardson story
- www.DallasGazetteNews.com | Melissa Lycrone
- www.DenverGlobalPost.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.ENews-Report.ME | Debbie Firestone story
- www.ExtremeMoney.net | Mark Steadman story
- www.EZSalary.net | Mark Steadman story
- www.FastLifeSolutions.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.GetHomeChecks.com | Maria Summers story
- www.HowIMadeDough.com
- www.IBlogIncome.com | Omar Wilkinson story
- www.INewsDirect.net | Mary Steadman story
- www.KBTVNewsToday.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.LAJournalist.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.NevadaBusinessChronicle.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.News18.TV | Marie Thompson story
- www.News19.org | Mary Steadman story
- www.News288.org | Maria Gonzalez
- www.News33Show.com | Amanda
- www.News34.org
- www.News6Boston.com | Mary Hoeffer
- www.News7-Today.com | Marie Thompson story
- www.NewsTodayUSA.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.NewYorkFinanceNews.com | Melissa Lycrone story
- www.NewYorkFinanceNews.info | Mary Steadman story
- www.NY-Weekly.com | Melissa Lycrone story
- www.Online-Career-Observer.com | Dan Campbell story
- www.OnlineCashReviews.info | Sarah Stanley story
- www.OnlineJobsWorldWide.net | Oliva Johnson story
- www.ReadNewToday.net | Mary Steadman story
- www.SBSCNews.com | Lauren Wood
- www.Simple-Works.org
- www.SkillTrends.com | Jerry Reynolds story
- www.SoTickedOff.com |
- www.Sun9News.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.TheDailyNewsOnline.net | Brett Johnson story
- www.TheOnlineNewsSource.com | Jessica Smith story
- www.ThePostTribuneNews.TV | Denise Stead story
- www.TribuneNews16.com | Emily Rogers story
- www.UK-GiveAways.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.USATodayNews.net | Maria Summers story
- www.USNewsReports.TV | Mary Steadman story
- www.VoiceOfAmericaGuide.com | Carol Ferguson
- www.W6News.com | Mary Steadman
- www.WallStreetGazetteNews.net | Mary Steadman story
- www.YouCanBeJobFree.com | Julie CrabTree story
- www.WithTheKing.com | Mary
- www.WorkingOnline3.org | Maria Gonzalez story
I can just see them all saying, "catch me if you can!"
Special props go out to CompanyTest.org and CompanyRecruit.com for including the statement: "Google has release a limited amount of kits, all distributed through local websites in your area" a.k.a. "Google has released…" which is a much more creative way of taking advantage of the IP2Location scripts that make these news sites appear to be coming from your location, whether you live in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, or Phoenix.
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Comments on New fake news sites say "catch me if you can!"
1:55 am
Your scraper programs are working overtime! You should send this information to the trademark holders, complete with a DMCA takedown notice directed to the ISP.
Or maybe the FTC should simply purchase your scraper program and do the same thing!
3:13 am
The funny thing is I haven't automated this process, which for me is a bit strange as I'm pretty obssessed with automating stuff like this.
It is in the plans though to have a program that automatically pulls, parses, stores and publishes the info as a way of countering some of the claims by companies such as FaceBook that they are "doing their best" to shut down the scam ads.
It's an incredibly simple automation task to flag all these templates automatically and (if warranted) push them into a queue for human review.
Too bad Google Adsense doesn't allow us to block ads more easily through their Ad Review Center as they are letting the scam ads creep in again as well.
Ultimately we'll only be putting up advertisements we completely control.
1:41 pm
I wouldnt really call these a scam 100%. Seeing as how I found one of these types of offers a year ago and started doing it myself. Honestly I failed at it the first 3 months but then I finally started making enough income to go from a full time job to part time and work online.
Just my input.
9:01 am
lmao wow you didnt automate this? i mean its pretty cool you put this out for people, but wouldnt you rather gettin laid or somthing?? need a life seriously..
3:52 pm
I just automated it now, actually.
Considering I built a system that automatically builds out joomla pages based on a S-curve distribution, randomly takes snippets from the daily published pages and randomly publishes them to a series of related blogs with link backs to the original pages and categories, and then randomly social bookmarks from those blogs I figured it was about time, especially since we are about to go into phase II of that other project in which the entire process, including domain buying, account creation, site creation, keyword research and pulling, and content building, blog posting, and social bookmarking can all be done hands off.
The problem with pure automated scraping of the flogs is they can still turn up a lot of false positives, because so many articles post much of their text as examples, plus it doesn't catch the flogs that are newly registered and "scheduled to launch", although much of that can be automated now as well.
1:11 am
Paul, this is excellent work.
You should share this program with both the FTC and the various state agencies.
1:52 am
Michael,
The one we got that automates alot of this was originally a blackhat tool I recently found offered on the WarriorForum called ScrapeBox. We've typically combined off-the-shelf tools along with our own. It's amazing how many blackhat tools are incredibly useful for legitimate means.
I do have other tools that would help them that I have slated to build that I'll definitely share with them gratis. They are doing a lot of unnecessary manual work.
However, I still haven't figured out a perfect way to filter out false positives, but it's certainly faster now.
The other trick is to automate finding sites before they are live and indexed, which is easy to do semi-manually with DomainTools.com's advanced domain search function because so many of the scam domains use similar names and can be found by their beginning or ending stems.
As we spec it out I would love to get your input. It's a ways away, but always at the top of my mind.
11:36 pm
I wasnt smart enough to research the website before giving out my account info. I came across that "google make money at home site" with a story about this girl called Andrea Wilmington who made 9grand from posting links for google. I thought it was legit coz i saw that cnn had actually interviewed her. I put my check card no and my pin. But once i clicked on the "continue" button…nothing came up, they kept saying "review your info". Thats when i decided to research on whether it was a scam and came across your site. My face just turned red!!
Like 5minutes ago, i called my bank and told them what i did. They decided to cancel my check card and send me a new one. I feel very stupid, i've recently been vulnerable since i lost my job and i'm running low on cash. I cant believe i fell prey to this. But thanks to you i realized my mistake and corrected it. Thankyou so much.
2:09 am
Another suspect??
http://www.futurejobstodayb.com/dailynews/
2:10 am
Another one?
http://www.futurejobstodayb.com/dailynews/