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chapAnjou
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Re: BOA spoof site
chapAnjou   4/25/2012 8:48:28 PM
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"The wire service "mistakenly published the fake press release and a headline about the release around 9:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday," according to a followup Dow Jones story."

The fact that this guy went so far as to create a fake press release does more to draw attention away from the message than making people think about their bank's shady business practices.  All this does is give BoA a way to play the part of the victim and not the "villain" (as the spoof site would have you believe).


chapAnjou
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Re: BOA spoof site
chapAnjou   4/25/2012 8:45:15 PM
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The person behind this website made a huge mistake when trying to get his political message across to the masses.  Your message is going to be lost when people are more worried about the safety of their information.  No one is going to that site and leaving it with a sense of "we need to take down BoA!", they're leaving there thinking "was it safe for me to even visit that site?".

driven
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Re: BOA spoof site
driven   4/19/2012 1:24:53 PM
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the spoof site may be gone, but I think the claim "the bank is no longer working" is still valid.

Noreen Seebacher
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BOA spoof site
Noreen Seebacher   4/19/2012 1:15:37 PM
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More fun from Bank of America...A spoof Web site popped up Wednesday and published a fake letter from Chief Executive Brian Moynihan claiming the bank "isn't working anymore."

Within hours, visitors to "yourbofa.com" found an error message stating the site was a "web forgery" designed "to trick you into revealing personal or financial information by imitating sources you may trust." B of A spokesman Scott Silvestri would not comment on whether the bank was responsible for blocking the site.

The Wall Street Journal reported on the fake Web site on Wednesday, but its affiliated publication, Dow Jones Newswires, was also a victim of the spoof. The wire service "mistakenly published the fake press release and a headline about the release around 9:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday," according to a followup Dow Jones story.





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