Ad Scams and Arbitrage
Written by: Jordan Liles
June 30, 2021
Unsolicited emails that appeared as a fake Fox News article led to a Keto Burn scam that had no ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
June 2, 2021
We hope this saves readers more than 150 clicks.
Written by: Jordan Liles
June 2, 2021
Some corners of the internet would have you believe WD-40 can do anything.
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 31, 2021
Advertisers posted a doctored image of actress Melissa McCarthy with Metz's face while at the sa ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 19, 2021
The strange ad led to a 121-page article. We promise this story will only be one page.
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 19, 2021
For at least several months, a strange online advertisement promised information about "why Hett ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 12, 2021
Readers may have seen ads that claimed a landlord got the "ultimate revenge" and "last laugh" af ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 12, 2021
For several years, an online advertisement claimed that "1 in 2 Mac users" were "unaware" of a " ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 27, 2021
A routine review of intentionally misleading online advertisements.
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 25, 2021
Pictures of WD-40 cans pointed at cracked phone screens have appeared for years in YouTube thumb ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 24, 2021
The real story was already fairly remarkable, but advertisers took it up a notch in a 40-page cl ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 19, 2021
An article claimed to list a number of celebrities who perhaps won't reappear on NBC's iconic "S ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 18, 2021
The story of "Swamp Ghost," a Boeing B-17E bomber, began during World War II and has continued w ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 18, 2021
The abandoned structure originally opened as a luxury hotel in 1893.
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 17, 2021
A mysterious advertisement showed a twisted rubber band attached to knobs on both sides of a door.
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 13, 2021
We flipped through 54 pages of brief paragraphs that probably could have just been one page.
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 12, 2021
The claim appeared in an online ad.
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 11, 2021
The highly misleading trope that never ends.
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 9, 2021
A handful of Twitter users certainly had a specific reason as to why a wet towel should be place ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
April 8, 2021
Unscrupulous online advertisers claimed that the Hollywood star had remarried after the death of ...
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