Bitcoin scam?

talexuser

This has been advertised in the Telegraph for several days now:

http://www.socialnewsreports.com/lp/beauty/mj/cnntech-dragondenbitcoin/?tracking=guwop&name=Bitcoin+Trader&sxid=3xjjhfm3beo4&domain=www.telegraph.co.uk&campaign=751598&ad=520591

I thought it a scam straight away since no other publicity had been genuinely in the press. I mailed the Telegraph with no reply. Could only find this link:

https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/03/27/stars-irelands-dragons-den-used-bitcoin-scam-website-without-knowledge/

Just amazed that mainstream outlets (BBC and Guardian mentioned in article) accept any old scam for ad money without some common sense in view.

TBC15

Bit like smoking. The whole phenomena relies on finding new mugs.

Bravepants

Sadly there are people in the world who fall for this rubbish. It!!!8217;s Darwinism in action. Same as smoking and Brexit.

Alexland

Peter Jones said this might be a scam? Deborah checked the paperwork and wasn't sure but Tej said he would invest all his money if he could rebrand it Vitabionicls. Touker and Jenny made some forgettable statements then they cut to some generic pre recorded Evan Davies summing up gibberish they use in every episode.

Peter looked down at his watch and considered several methods to get Touker removed from his life. He settled on waiting one more series as he figured the contrast made him look good but the irritation was becoming unbearable.

Alexland

This scam advert just came up again when I was reading the Telegraph today. They seem to be accepting external adverts via "prowrinklesite". Very poor they have lost control of their advert quality.

dealer_wins

The fact its connected to a reputable site means unfortunately people will fall for this.

Internet fraud and scams are seriously getting out of control. I know us sensible people on MSE wouldnt fall for them, but sadly some people do and its never nice to see people scammed out of their hard earned cash.

Browntoa

I upset a daily Mail reporter on here asking about scams , he didn't like it when I pointed out that his own paper allowed advertising from madbid and Swoggi via a 3rd party advertisers site

Zanderman

talexuser wrote: »

This has been advertised in the Telegraph for several days now:

http://www.socialnewsreports.com/lp/beauty/mj/cnntech-dragondenbitcoin/?tracking=guwop&name=Bitcoin+Trader&sxid=3xjjhfm3beo4&domain=www.telegraph.co.uk&campaign=751598&ad=520591

When you say 'in the Telegraph' I assume you don't mean the print edition? Only the website? It would be helpful to know as it makes a difference to how surprising it is. Ads on a newspaper website aren't 'in' the newspaper..

Ads on websites are difficult to police - so a few rogue ones are inevitable, but ads like this in the print edition would be shocking.

[Adblocking software will remove the website ones of course - though only for you, they'll still be there for the gullible]

Glen_Clark

As George Bernard Shaw once said of a Telegraph leader: "Perfect rubbish expressed in perfect English". Its owners live in a tax haven under threat from Jeremy Corbyn and an EU wide tax treaty, so no wonder they are opposed to both.
In substance it is nothing more than the Daily Mail with longer words. It distorts news by taking the minor asides of what somebody has said and reporting them as the whole substance of a speech. In that way, it has been distorting the views of Non-Tory British politicians and of EU politicians for decades.
So I seldom read it because can't take it seriously anyway.

talexuser

Zanderman wrote: »

When you say 'in the Telegraph' I assume you don't mean the print edition?

Does anyone still read print editions?

Seriously though my incredulity was it gains credibility from a nominally serious newspaper (with serious press under threat from "fake news" nowadays).

Oh, and the ads are now on Yahoo forums too.

bowlhead99

uBlock Origin is a decent ad-blocker add-in for for Firefox or Chrome which will save you from a lot of crapola across the interwebs.

I'm often surprised when I see someone using a page I'm used to visiting and they're not using a blocker and have to navigate twice as far to find the things they want on the page.

Bad example of a site for 'quality journalism' but just as a snapshot taken a few minutes ago as an example of what you have to put up with if you go to site without using a reputable ad-blocker, vs with a blocker. In the second screenshot the blocker has blocked 108 elements which would have worsened your experience if you'd waited for them to load. If you need to cancel the blocking for any reason you can simply click the icon in your toolbar to turn it off temporarily at any time and have your own custom list of exclusions or blocks.