spam,

Ian Shlasko

It is... I'm in New York, but when I click the link, it shows a city on the other side of the country, "coincidentally" the location of my firm's headquarters. Definitely tracing the IP.

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thrakazog

The page seems to detect where you are accessing it from. It told me the story was from Oregon. The scammers are getting better. I've seen many legitimate websites that looked much worse.

El Corazon

thrakazog wrote:

It told me the story was from Oregon.

That is how I knew it was fake... it said a lady in New Mexico made ... money a week. Half the USA doesn't know New Mexico is a state, the other half couldn't care less, so no one is going to advertise someone from New Mexico making money, it would be worthless advertising. :)

_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

eslsys

Yep, clearly converting the IP to location, mine reads "Cork Stay At Home Mom Makes $6,875/Month Working From Home"

kstraw

The fact that it places your home town, or at least that of your IP provider, in the US and then discusses everything in US Dollars says Scam Scam Scam! In my case the average Northamptonshire housewife would not think in US dollars!

84hotwheels

destynova

It looks like an otherwise legitimate enough news site, until you notice that ALL of the links (traffic, weather, news, etc) go to the same "internet profit" spamsite. :-D They might have more success signing up a few poor saps than the usual easily-dismissed email, but it's still hard to imagine many people taking the bait... ...Although a somewhat naieve friend was adamant about signing up to a pyramid-spam scheme about ten years ago - I argued with him for a long time about how pointless and annoying it would be for himself and others, but he was stuck somewhere along the lines of "but what if it's true and I get rich?". Not sure if he went through with it in the end. Perhaps a bit similar to people who aren't quite sure about their particular religion but won't "become" atheists because what if it's true etc. (Even though the same argument could be made for any arbitrary belief).

BrainiacV

Oh look! They blanked out the name of the recipient, but left the TR and DDA numbers on the bottom of the check along with the authorizing signature! Guess it's time for me to print up a few $5000 checks for myself! Woohoo!

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Vikram A Punathambekar

El Corazon wrote:

Half the USA doesn't know New Mexico is a state, the other half couldn't care less

Which brings up an interesting question - do the people of New Mexico not know they are in the USA, or do they not care? Anyway, been a while since I saw you, Jeff, how are you doing? Family OK? :)

Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)

El Corazon

50/50 split of course. ;P

_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

Asday

The downside being, of course, that you're eating in India. I am truly sorry.

Vikram A Punathambekar

I guess you're one of the few who aren't fond of Indian food? :)

Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)

Asday

Oh, I am, on most occasions. It's my bowels who aren't. *rumblerumblerumble*