Bill Gates to the rescue

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:06 pm

Can this be true ?

Bill Gates to rob the top 1% of their wealth

And here Gatesway

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:32 pm

Normally I'd say if it looks too good to be true, it is. But CNN and Bill Gates in his philanthropist guise are enough to make me double take. edit: is it really them or just people pretending it's them?

Worth keeping an eye on, for sure.

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:46 pm

sniffing the air

I smell a SCAM

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 1:01 pm

It is registered to a PO Box in Panama HERE

I don't think I will bother signing up.

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 1:12 pm

...me neither.

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 1:13 pm

Bruv;1508185 wrote: It is registered to a PO Box in Panama HERE

I don't think I will bother signing up.

Ah, what the heck ya got to loose?

You can test the waters for us, and if you get rich, we'll all jump in.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 1:21 pm

I had a look at both sites and I'm not happy about it.

Firstly I noticed that neither site is a straighforward URL. By that I mean that CNN is typically CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos and their articles are generally at EDITION.CNN.COM whereas this site is M-CNNPLUS.COM. So I went to the CNN site and searched within it for the article - no such article found.

So I searched for scam notices relating to it all, M-CNNPLUS.COM flags all sorts of alarms, it's a totally new site (less than a month old) and only registered for a year etc. The "broker" site they point to is "use with caution", etc.

Then I registered on the second site to see what it was like. It was trying to take credit card details on an unsecured page which was odd and it didn't offer any privatised payment options such as PayPal which was worrying.

All in all I don't think I'll be trying it any time soon.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 3:54 pm

Thank you Bryn, and that was found on Facebook, think they call it targeted advertising. They must know about my recent scam emails from the other thread.......do I look like a sucker ?

Don't answer that.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 1:53 pm

Latest get-rich-quick scam actually uses Bill Gates impersonator

Wonder how the advertisements get onto Face Book ?

Post by **LarsMac** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 3:52 pm

Bruv;1508265 wrote: Latest get-rich-quick scam actually uses Bill Gates impersonator

Wonder how the advertisements get onto Face Book ?

If you ever read an article about Gates, or searched for anything related to him, "Bill Gates" becomes a valid reference for ads, and as soon as that reference showed up in someone's page, somewhere in the FB universe, it became fair game for anybody on FB who ever showed an interest in Gates. (at least until someone posted a complaint against it.)