Darn, because it was a great story. Ah well.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Predrag Ivanovic Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 9:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] Plan: Steal dad's credit card, play xbox with hookers On Thu, 15 May 2008 17:40:14 -0400 Alex Eckelberry wrote: > http://www.money.co.uk/article/1000390-13-year-old-steals-dads-credit- > c > ard-to-buy-hookers.htm It was a hoax/linkbait, apparently... "Online marketer Lyndon Antcliff recently helped a client achieve over 1500 inbound links in under a week with a story designed to grab attention. The article - 13 Year Old Steals Dad's Credit Card to Buy Hookers- appeared on money.co.uk as part of Lyndon's linkbaiting campaign, and it was certainly successful. The story soon appeared around the world. Digg users pumped it up to a total 2452 diggs, driving tons of traffic to the page. Then news outlets started leaping on the story. In Australia News.com.au, The Daily Telegraph, and more all publicised the story, driving hundreds of links and thousands of site visitors back. Back in the UK, best selling newspaper The Sun published the story in their pages. News services loved the story of what American teens can get up to. In the states, Fox News aired the story, later spread wide through YouTube. But the whole article was fiction." More at : http://www.jonathancrossfield.com/blog/2008/05/linkbait-at-any-cost.html http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-05-22-n16.html Pedja -- Complicated == Learning Experience - Joe Bowman _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
