Beware the Bogus KLMT
It appears a get-rich-quick outfit is looking to capitalize on the trust people seem to have with local news. Lost Remote unearths a fictional “KLMT” station website, where a “35-year-old news veteran” by the name of Katie Wilson reports on how some people make enough money from Google’s AdSense program to quit their jobs and work solely from home.
The would-be station’s branding is KLMT3 and its tagline is “Your Local News Station.” The site offers local weather and the pictures of four “anchors” on the top, along with categories such as Sports and Entertainment. Wilson even mentions a news director by the name of John Beamer who assigned her the piece. The site has several typos, which, sadly, does not make it that much different from a lot of TV Websites out there.
Clicking on any links on the home page — Sports, Weather, etc., — brings one to a promotion called Google Money Master.
There is an email for our 35-year-old news veteran Katie. I dropped her an email. I’ll let y’all know what she has to say.
Melissa commented:
Russ do work w/ or for these fakes? Just to let you all know, there are several more sites out there for the same product. If it's not a TV news site, it's a newspaper w/ fake reporters site. If ran acrossed at least a dozen different ones in the last week.
Russ commented:
At the bottom of new3news.com:
"Site Disclaimer
THE STORY DEPICTED ON THIS SITE AND THE PERSON DEPICTED IN THE STORY ARE NOT REAL. RATHER, THIS STORY IS BASED ON THE RESULTS THAT SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE USED THESE PRODUCTS HAVE ACHIEVED. THE RESULTS PORTRAYED IN THE STORY AND IN THE COMMENTS ARE ILLUSTRATIVE, AND MAY NOT BE THE RESULTS THAT YOU ACHIEVE WITH THESE PRODUCTS. THIS PAGE RECEIVES COMPENSATION FOR CLICKS ON OR PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS FEATURED ON THIS SITE."
Surprised Reader commented:
I clicked on this link on the washingtonpost website because it advertised a news story by Barbara Walters. It brought up Katie Wilson's article on a miracle medicine at news3news.com:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070201409.html?hpid=moreheadlines
It also had a 60 minutes youtube video posted on the fake article.
Christ commented:
The link to a "local" news site offering "$62/hr part time" showed up in the links section of my Gmail account... oddly enough, it also made mention of CBS news LOL.
Also KLMT3... but it had local weather for my hometown, in Pennsylvania.
steve commented:
hey, if you do get a reply from "35-year-old news veteran Katie" ask her how her gig at news3news(dot)com is going.
steve commented:
oops! my bad... the call letters used were WKTV... i got the utica, ny thing right though!
steve commented:
only outdone by news13direct(dot)com that uses REAL call letters on their (similar looking) web property... WKMG is in utica, ny.
think we're seeing the beginning of a trend?