How Dave Williams Lies with JavaScript
Dave Williams runs a get rich quick using Google scheme at a site called Dave Gets Green where he sells some sort of secret something or other. It's hard to tell for sure.
Regardless, here's a little trick Dave Williams uses to lie to visitors to his website. Notice that Dave Williams says he lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota in his bio:
Now look at the source code used to build his bio:
Oh my. I get the impression that Dave Williams is actually from whatever town someone visiting his site happens to live in. That doesn't seem all that honest to me.
Dave, at least get the punctuation right, man.
I just tried to test out his site from Albuquerque... but I couldn't find this guy's site... maybe he got the axe already?
Justin, it's really sad to see someone lie so poorly. :-)
Bex, I found that site through a Facebook ad. Today, the ad is back with a photo of Andy Samberg and a new domain name.
He posts a pic of a check, that is supposedly proof of earnings, but the check is made out to a Kevin Hoeffer, and yeah, when I look at it, says he is from Brooklyn.
Even the picture of the check and the picture of his family is the same.
he is so busted.
Ahhhh. For all the tech guys in the world he's busted but for all the people who are just "Regular Joes" (not their real name) this is a scam that works again and again. In fact, he probably makes the $5000+ by running these scams.
1. Posted by: justin on February 16, 2009 12:26 AM:
Not to mention using document.write() is evil. He should be using proper DOM methods. But I suppose if Dave can't even be straight about what city he lives in, then what hope do we have?