Bush Arrested in Canada for War Crimes
No need to worry. Scammers aren't the only ones
spoofing domain names this holiday season. Someone has so flawlessly spoofed CNN using the domain "world-cnn.com" that it made me do a double take. There is in fact no disclaimer on the page, nothing that indentifies this as a spoof or says who is responsible. It'll be interesting to see how long it stays online and how much press it gets.
World-CNN.com - Bush Arrested in Canada for War Crimes
It looks like the spoofed page was lifted from the following REAL CNN / AP article on Bush's visit to Canada.
CNN.com - Canada braces for Bush protests - Nov 29, 2004
In other somewhat related news
I'm not sure what the relationship but there is another spoof that was put up at:
AxisofLogic/ Political Satire
The Inquirer has the scoop on the Axis of Logic spoof at the followign url:
Bush arrested in Canada
Now, just before you get all settled down and your blood pressure returns to normal I want to point out this editorial from the REAL Toronto Star which openly ponders wether Canada should in fact indict Bush.
TheStar.com - Should Canada indict Bush?
Finally, A quick tip. Spoofing a website or email for the purposes gaining trust, decieving and/or harvesting personal information is called phishing. For more information on phishing check out wikipedia.org:
Phishing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
