Dick Smith bitcoin scam
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Dick Smith bitcoin scam
Advertisements using my name and image have been circulated on websites and social media claiming that I support investment in bitcoin. This is a complete scam. I do not endorse or promote any bitcoin schemes and have never invested in bitcoin.
My name is being used by these scammers without my consent and I am taking every possible action to have the ads removed. I do not support any website publishing these ads as they are assisting criminals to take money from innocent victims.
The ads have been reported to the ACCC's Scamwatch, Facebook, media outlets, the Federal and State Police and the Australian Cybersecurity Centre. The matter is under investigation by the police.
My name is being used by these scammers without my consent and I am taking every possible action to have the ads removed. I do not support any website publishing these ads as they are assisting criminals to take money from innocent victims.
The ads have been reported to the ACCC's Scamwatch, Facebook, media outlets, the Federal and State Police and the Australian Cybersecurity Centre. The matter is under investigation by the police.
Thanks Dick. Those Scam ads featuring you seem to pop up every time I’m on this site.
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They are on here as I type this.
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Thanks Dick. Users need to understand not to believe every advert on this and other sites.
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So, tail wheel are you saying that you have no proprietary responsibility for the contents of this sight ?
Who gets the advertising revenue ?
And why aren’t they responsible ?
Isnt this just the Facebook “I’m just putting it on the back of a truck” excuse ?
Who gets the advertising revenue ?
And why aren’t they responsible ?
Isnt this just the Facebook “I’m just putting it on the back of a truck” excuse ?
These ads pop up in a lot of celebrity names. If you have a media profile, not just social media, you will appear. I have seen them for Kochie, Bill Gates, Robert Kiyosaki etc.
The classic ‘Doctor, it hurts when I do this’.
The Doctor ‘Then stop doing it’.
Just leave the site if you don’t like it.
I’m sure the Pprune ‘corporation’ doesn’t have a 24/7 security department. Things will get through until bought to their attention and then probably removed post haste.
As the multi millionaire Tailwheel who has made his personal fortune from moderating this site and hasn’t slept since 2002 to stand on the wall to protect people from nonsense scams we will hold the trial for him under rule 303 to appeases those who might fall for these adds. Meanwhile I request from now you refer to me as Lord Ozbiggles as I bought a square foot of land in Scotland off facebook and rightly deserve my title.
As the multi millionaire Tailwheel who has made his personal fortune from moderating this site and hasn’t slept since 2002 to stand on the wall to protect people from nonsense scams we will hold the trial for him under rule 303 to appeases those who might fall for these adds. Meanwhile I request from now you refer to me as Lord Ozbiggles as I bought a square foot of land in Scotland off facebook and rightly deserve my title.
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This is not a manual process
Modern internet advertising is highly automated. When you start loading a page I the seconds that takes many things happen. The information held on you in cookies, browser configuration, location, device type etc. Are sent to the advert serving companies, these details identify you (by profile not name, user is etc.).
For example in this case being say an Australian male over 45 interested in aviation and investments who has regularly visited PPRuNe (and hence more likely to trust Dick Smith a long term high profile member.)
This profile is made available to the advertising buyers system. That system looks at the profile compares it with the type of profile they want to reach.
If there is a good match the buying system bids for the right to display its chosen advert. Other advertisers bid against them, the auction closes after a few hundred milliseconds and the winning advert is served.
PPRuNe will never see the advert, let alone have time to act to stop it appearing.
These need to be stopped at the advertising market or source.
As site users we can help by clicking the small report button embedded in the advert and possibly by sending Dick a PM with a screen shot and time stamp to provide evidence - although I doubt much more is needed.
For example in this case being say an Australian male over 45 interested in aviation and investments who has regularly visited PPRuNe (and hence more likely to trust Dick Smith a long term high profile member.)
This profile is made available to the advertising buyers system. That system looks at the profile compares it with the type of profile they want to reach.
If there is a good match the buying system bids for the right to display its chosen advert. Other advertisers bid against them, the auction closes after a few hundred milliseconds and the winning advert is served.
PPRuNe will never see the advert, let alone have time to act to stop it appearing.
These need to be stopped at the advertising market or source.
As site users we can help by clicking the small report button embedded in the advert and possibly by sending Dick a PM with a screen shot and time stamp to provide evidence - although I doubt much more is needed.
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Modern internet advertising is highly automated. When you start loading a page I the seconds that takes many things happen. The information held on you in cookies, browser configuration, location, device type etc. Are sent to the advert serving companies, these details identify you (by profile not name, user is etc.).
For example in this case being say an Australian male over 45 interested in aviation and investments who has regularly visited PPRuNe (and hence more likely to trust Dick Smith a long term high profile member.)
This profile is made available to the advertising buyers system. That system looks at the profile compares it with the type of profile they want to reach.
If there is a good match the buying system bids for the right to display its chosen advert. Other advertisers bid against them, the auction closes after a few hundred milliseconds and the winning advert is served.
PPRuNe will never see the advert, let alone have time to act to stop it appearing.
These need to be stopped at the advertising market or source.
As site users we can help by clicking the small report button embedded in the advert and possibly by sending Dick a PM with a screen shot and time stamp to provide evidence - although I doubt much more is needed.
For example in this case being say an Australian male over 45 interested in aviation and investments who has regularly visited PPRuNe (and hence more likely to trust Dick Smith a long term high profile member.)
This profile is made available to the advertising buyers system. That system looks at the profile compares it with the type of profile they want to reach.
If there is a good match the buying system bids for the right to display its chosen advert. Other advertisers bid against them, the auction closes after a few hundred milliseconds and the winning advert is served.
PPRuNe will never see the advert, let alone have time to act to stop it appearing.
These need to be stopped at the advertising market or source.
As site users we can help by clicking the small report button embedded in the advert and possibly by sending Dick a PM with a screen shot and time stamp to provide evidence - although I doubt much more is needed.
George Orwell was right.
It's good to see Dick telling us about this, and disappointing to see the reaction by some. Edmund Burke said, "All it takes for evil to flourish is for men of good will to do nothing". The state of the world is a reflection of the thoughts of the people in it, and most of the thoughts displayed here are part of the problem, not the solution.
The same thing happened to Martin Lewis (google "money saving expert"). He sued the website and they settled for a few gazzilion quid when it became clear that the law regarded the website platform as the "publisher".
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(I would guess all the volunteer moderators, who I assume are drawn from the users on this site, are just as annoyed by unwanted ads as everyone else).
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I may have purchased my retirement acreage on the Moon surface from the same site you purchased you square foot in Scotland.
I am more simpler...The Man on the Moon is OK for me.
As for tail wheel...banished to the “naughty corner”.
I may have purchased my retirement acreage on the Moon surface from the same site you purchased you square foot in Scotland.
I am more simpler...The Man on the Moon is OK for me.
As for tail wheel...banished to the “naughty corner”.
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Don't be ridiculous, Biggles. How about a company that makes money from people using the site engaging in a bit of corporate responsibility and blocking what is obviously designed to rip people off and smear the names of Dick et al? Fair enough if it was a porn site but really? Don't visit Prune because of scam ads?
Have none of you heard of Adblocker? Sure, some sites you visit will detect you using it and stop you from seeing their content unless you disable it.
Those sites aren't worth visiting, if that is the case. Never seen an ad on Proon, don't expect to either.
Those sites aren't worth visiting, if that is the case. Never seen an ad on Proon, don't expect to either.