{"id":1064,"date":"2010-07-15T11:58:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T18:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2010-07-15T11:58:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T18:58:29","slug":"more-on-bogus-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"More on bogus websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=997\" target=\"_blank\">a post the other day<\/a> on bogus gift card websites and how to spot them.\u00a0 Today I was presented with another humorous example of one of these type of bogus websites which may be as benign as trying to capture eyeballs for ads or direct traffic to other affiliated sites, or could possibly contain malware or link through to out-and-out scams.\u00a0 Take a look:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bogus2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1065\" title=\"bogus2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bogus2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bogus2.png 520w, http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bogus2-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice anything peculiar?\u00a0 Last I checked, paying more than face value for something wasn&#8217;t actually a deal.\u00a0 I think the algorithm used to create the site (and probably many like it) clearly has flaws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a post the other day on bogus gift card websites and how to spot them.\u00a0 Today I was presented with another humorous example of one of these type of bogus websites which may be as benign as trying to capture eyeballs for ads or direct traffic to other affiliated sites, or could possibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scams","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}