The Faebook Scam
Posted by Stan at 11/29/2007 6:44 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
A wierd story from Mashable.com
This is one weird scam. Someone registered the domain Faebook.com (Facebook without a C) and wrapped it into a frame designed to look like a genuine Amazon page - of course, with his own Amazon referrals on all products. It’s the good old tactics of using misspelled domain names for profit, but it’s uncommon to see such an obvious misspelling of a site as big as Faebook used like this. It’s not Amazon’s doing - it’s hard to believe that they’d try to profit from Facebook’s popularity in such a sleazy way.
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This is one weird scam. Someone registered the domain Faebook.com (Facebook without a C) and wrapped it into a frame designed to look like a genuine Amazon page - of course, with his own Amazon referrals on all products. It’s the good old tactics of using misspelled domain names for profit, but it’s uncommon to see such an obvious misspelling of a site as big as Faebook used like this. It’s not Amazon’s doing - it’s hard to believe that they’d try to profit from Facebook’s popularity in such a sleazy way.
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