{"id":121473,"date":"2009-12-31T18:44:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T23:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091231\/1440067570.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-31T18:44:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T23:44:52","slug":"fcc-boss-spams-facebook-friends-with-make-money-now-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/121473","title":{"rendered":"FCC Boss Spams Facebook Friends With Make Money Now Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, sooner or later everyone falls for some sort of phishing\/scamware type of thing, right?  It&#8217;s just especially embarrassing if you&#8217;re the head of the FCC.  The NY Times is reporting that FCC Chair Julius Genachowski had his Facebook account <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/31\/whoops-fcc-chairman-spams-facebook-friends\/?src=twt&#038;twt=nytimesbits\" >spam all his friends with a message saying &#8220;Adam got me started making money with this&#8221;<\/a> which was followed by a link to a now defunct site.  Facebook has taken down Genachowski&#8217;s page, and appears to be effectively blaming him for the problem, putting out a generic notice about how users need to be careful not to click on strange links&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091231\/1440067570.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091231\/1440067570.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091231\/1440067570&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=4118d93f17157acaf81c8ceb015866b9&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=4118d93f17157acaf81c8ceb015866b9&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=e2ZD4hMwjIQ:CZrupTuUbDg:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=e2ZD4hMwjIQ:CZrupTuUbDg:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=e2ZD4hMwjIQ:CZrupTuUbDg:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/e2ZD4hMwjIQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, sooner or later everyone falls for some sort of phishing\/scamware type of thing, right? It&#8217;s just especially embarrassing if you&#8217;re the head of the FCC. The NY Times is reporting that FCC Chair Julius Genachowski had his Facebook account spam all his friends with a message saying &#8220;Adam got me started making money with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}