Sounds to me like the scam busters are the scammers!
....Click over to the Webnode site and you find a Business Wire press release explaining that the company has been given a contract from the government to raise $4 billion to fund the creation of the "Next Generation Internet." Webnode will raise the money by selling 40 million Internet "nodes" for an initial price of $100 each.....The FBI was called in to investigate and the perpetrators of the prank are being sued.... After receiving a phone call warning of the hoax, Business Wire contacted the creators of Webnode. "We asked them to delete the press release and they refused," says Cathy Baron Tamraz, a senior vice-president at Business Wire. Jeffrey Mitchell, one of the creators of Webnode, says they didn't refuse, but that it took them a few hours to get around to pulling down the press release. Instead of taking it down altogether, however, Mitchell and his cohorts decided to change the "Business Wire" header to "Bidness Wire." Business Wire demanded that the complete press release, which had been composed by the Webnode pranksters, be struck from the site. "They were giving us a very hard time," says Baron Tamraz. The Webnoders eventually relented on April 18, replacing the original release with a page poking more fun at Business Wire.
On April 22, Business Wire contacted the FBI and notified them about the Webnode hoax. Two days later the company filed suit against the three creators of Webnode -- the first time in its history that Business Wire has sued anyone for fraud.
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"I hate cockroaches," says Bill Ulrich, a Web designer who put together the Webnode.com site. "And I like to step on them." |
