Interesting touch on this one: See the top left corner? Login & Sign up The illusion of the ability to participate is further enhanced by social media icons. While the authority of news is alluded to in the style of the ad- headings,writer's picture with byline etc.
Of course, the only working links lead to the sales site!
Check it out for yourself! http://www.thedaily-news.net/finance/?id=v
Which key words fool you? I was doing a search for family fun and was drawn to this fake by the following search result :
Play fun family games
Sponsored by:abundantlivingfamilychurch.com
At first glance, I thought it's an odd set up for a church site. ..
When I clicked on the links, I discovered its true religion: Search Engines Are Us! This site is a glorified search engine with links leading to sites that pay it for advertising. It has a really nice look compared to most. The links that I checked are all family friendly and many are quite useful. If they had Canadian results, I might book mark it for use. But come on! Masquerading as a church?! That's really in bad taste! I wonder if they are getting tax write-offs as a church as well? Hmmm...I could set up a church site...After all I do have that free certificate showing I am a minister. Nah! I think my conscience is too strong for me sometimes,
See it yourself: http://abundantlivingfamilychurch.com/
This fabulous fake has some working links in the top right hand corner that appear to lead to real news, but only produce and splash page Mock headlines along the top in link colours, underlined are non functioning, but click a real link & return to the page and all links on the page as well as the "headlines" change to the visited link colour.
The only real link to news is contained in the accuweather widget on the page. (referred to in the html as a breadcrumb)
The piece d'résistance lies in at the bottom of this elaborate phony.
Here a very real disclaimer and realistic link categories mimic a real news site. Click any link at all and surprise ! Is this really the recipe section? Click Here to see the HTML behind this link list)
See this Fab Fake Here!
This advertising ploy tries to get readers to believe they are reading the personal experience of an individual. Very clever!
However, closer examination, (with a right click of the mouse and choosing to "view page source code" ) we find that there are robots or widgets at work here. In addition, look what pops up when you try to close the page:
Just Click "O.K." and it will disappear.
This ad is programmed to examine the ISP of the person opening the page. to determine their location then changes the wording of the "blog" accordingly. My copy of this page shows "Erin" lives in Toronto, and she received a check from the Canadian Government. What results do you get on this page? Drop me a comment & let the world know!
