{"id":1945,"date":"2008-04-18T09:06:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T17:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2008-06-03T10:29:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T18:29:06","slug":"doublingstockscom-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/18\/doublingstockscom-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"DoublingStocks.com: scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I clicked on a Google Ad for <a href=\"http:\/\/DoublingStocks.com\">DoublingStocks.com<\/a>. The ad and the site was very adamant about how terrific their service was. I googled around and found several sites with people that didn&#8217;t have good things to say about it. And then here was the clincher:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennystocks.com\/html\/blog\/blog\/post\/82\/\">This Pennystocks.com page<\/a> had lots of info about the company that showed them as being sketchy (like that their published phone number didn&#8217;t work and their published address isn&#8217;t a real building) and pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061229183925\/pokerbobby.com\/\">this archive.org page<\/a> about the company&#8217;s previous endeavor, pokerbobby.com.<\/p>\n<p>A pretty compelling tidbit is that these grifters reused images from their previous job. Note the  two pages below. :-(<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"pokerbobbycom\" href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/pokerbobbycom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft attachment wp-att-1946\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/pokerbobbycom.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"pokerbobbycom\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"doublingstockscom\" href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/doublingstockscom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1947\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/doublingstockscom.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"doublingstockscom\" width=\"199\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I clicked on a Google Ad for DoublingStocks.com. The ad and the site was very adamant about how terrific their service was. I googled around and found several sites with people that didn&#8217;t have good things to say about it. And then here was the clincher: This Pennystocks.com page had lots of info about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}