A Shortcut to Sell Snake Oil
I ran into these two sites during the last month:-
- "Who Else Wants To Learn How To Dramatically Improve Their Chess Skills...In As Little As 7 Days?"
- Discover How You Can Dramatically Improve Your Chess Skills In The Next 30 Minutes Or Less...Guaranteed!
The only reason I clicked on the links was because they were on the Blogspot.com domain. I always look at chess blogs, but neither of them looks anything like a blog. They both look like typical fly-by-night marketing pages of the 'Improve Your XYZ While You Sleep' genre. 'How does that work?', I asked myself.
In fact, both URLs are constructed with a trailing '#'. When I remove that character and feed the URL to my browser, the page look like a blog -- a really boring blog, but a blog nevertheless. The trick appears to be a combination of the '#' character and a URL in the blog description with the format 'javascript:OOO('abc');'.
Where is this trick documented? Can it be misused for something more harmful than selling Get Rich Quick books?
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These same guys had the spam blog comments all over Blogger until the word verification came in.
It's pretty funny to think that this is some kind of get-rich-quick scheme...chess isn't exactly a big money sport.
'It's pretty funny to think that this is some kind of get-rich-quick scheme'
No one has ever accused spammers of being smart. - Mark
Touche'
:)
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