互联网(Internet)是各种骗局的沃土。哪些是最大的（也是最有趣的）？我们收集了 5 个在Web(Web)上非常受欢迎的作品，请查看。
1. 孤独的女孩15
孤独女孩 15 的视频是一系列YouTube剪辑，记录了一个普通 15 岁女孩的日常烦恼以及她惊人的高级视频和编辑技巧。随着系列的进展，邪教行为的险恶色彩逐渐蔓延。尽管比罗斯威尔的大脚怪视频更明显是假的，(Roswell)但关于(Bigfoot)视频真实性的争论持续了数周，当恶作剧被揭露时，许多人感到不安。是的，人们公开宣布“我很沮丧，因为我没有在不做任何事情的情况下偷窥一个真正的未成年女孩滑入恐怖和虐待的过程。”
洛杉矶时报(LA Times)最终“揭露”了这个骗局，我们确信，当以前闻所未闻的电影制作“阴谋者”在那里被揭露时，在《泰晤士报》(Times)、《纽约时报》(New York Times)、《华尔街日报》(Wall Street Journal)和PBS中，他们是绝对吓坏了。“伙计(Man)，”他们一定是对所有以前不会看他们的记者和新闻播音员说，“你真的把我们带到了那里。我们根本没想到我们的恶作剧会被曝光。”
“我们不认为它会运作 得 (half )这么好。”
2. EVE 银行家
对于那些仍然知道其他人和黎明之星长什么样子的人来说，EVE Online是一款基于空间的大型沉浸式MMORPG。我们的意思是像流沙海洋一样快进的沉浸式体验——它实际上是一个完整的星系，而其他世界有角色和武器系统，而这个世界拥有完整的经济。您实际上可以通过交易商品在游戏中取得成功，而ISK ( Interstellar Kredit ) 的游戏货币具有真实的（如果不是完全合法的）转换为真实货币的功能。事实上EVE ISK （每 100万ISK 0.40美元(USD), 电子游戏往往以大单位交易）可能是比冰岛克朗(Iceland Kroner)的实际货币（0.01美元(USD)= 1冰岛克朗(ISK)）更好的投资和更广泛的使用。EVE玩家数量也与冰岛（(Iceland)约30万）相媲美， CCP游戏（制造商）总部位于冰岛(Iceland)。并不是说我们建议任何雷克雅未克(Reykjavikians)人应该担心被中共(CCP)训练的狂热军队取代，以服从他们的每一个命令。
人们已经在EVE(EVE)的虚拟空间中建立了整个业务，通过本质上从事两份工作（第一份支付第二份月费）来反转视频游戏的整个功能，平均每个EVE玩家每天登录 2.5 小时. 2006 年，一位名叫Cally（真名Dentara Rast）的玩家成立了“ EVE投资银行”，而在电子游戏中可能发生的另一个惊人的不切实际的事情的例子中，人们将他们的钱委托给了一个名叫“ Cally ”的人。
随着时间的推移，银行不断扩张，最终账户中拥有超过 7000亿冰岛克朗(Billion ISK)（超过 10 万真实，老实说“你可以用这些美元购买食物或性行为”）。然后，在现实生活中的CEO(CEOs)梦寐以求的公司犯罪中（我敢肯定经常这样做），卡莉(Cally)就拿走了所有的钱就跑了。具体来说，他跑去买了一艘 Ultimega-death 级超级巡洋舰，将一百万ISK悬赏悬赏在自己的头上，然后驶入深空，只是为了让任何人都敢试图杀死他。看到这个了吗？这(THIS)就是为什么人们这么喜欢玩电子游戏的原因——在现实生活中，白领犯罪是捏造的数字和移民到避税天堂，在EVE我们有一位银行经理，他用聚变炮处理服务投诉。
3.不良公司可下载内容
可下载内容的难题，真正揭示了开发者的真正精神。像Valve这样出色的公司发布免费内容，因为他们了解整个“互联网”事物，以及其数字发行和受人喜爱的品牌背后的价值。像 EA 这样的非一流公司对其收费，而像微软(Microsoft)这样的其他公司则以“现在付费或以后免费策略”徘徊在中间。然而，与互联网上(Internet)一半的人所相信的相反，你实际上不能恨某人，因为他们不会免费放弃他们的工作。幸运的是，EA通过对“不可下载的内容”（也称为“你已经从他们那里购买的东西”）收费，让他们再次讨厌他们是完全(Things)正常的。(A-OK)
多年来，EA 一直在努力解决“实际上必须生产一些东西才能赚钱”这一麻烦事，在每次迭代中减少年度游戏的内容，并且通过Bad Company，他们终于实现了这一目标。没错，你所做的就是为《战地(Battlefield)：坏公司》(Bad Company)光盘付费。或者您可以为解锁某些武器的版本支付额外费用。事实上，已经在两个光盘上的武器。是的，EA 已经实现了营销混蛋的(Marketing Bastardry)禅宗涅槃(Zen Nirvana)，它研究了如何向你出售相同的东西两次并每次都收费。
这个消息几乎和手术室里的鼠疫一样广受好评，但事实是，全球电子艺术(Electronics Arts)办公室仍未被烧毁，这证明互联网(Internet)评论家在网上非常、非常直言不讳，在实际做事方面非常、非常无用事物。抵制运动已经开始，我们只能希望一次，一次，互联网(Internet)冷漠不会打扰它。因为一旦他们发现他们可以摆脱这个 EA，他们绝对会在有任何剩余点、动机或理智之后很久就将这种做法付诸实践。这些人将流行的Madden游戏特许经营权变成了每年 60 美元的玩家姓名更新，而且至少开始不错。
4. 吉兹蒙多
您可能还记得我们几周前在我们的“ 5 个最糟糕的保证(The 5 Worst Reassurances)”文章中谈到了Gizmondo（在这种情况下，谢谢，普通读者，我们能否说一下您今天看起来多么有眼光和聪明？）。这是因为Gizmondo出现在整个Internet上的每一个否定形容词技术列表中。自从有人第一次想到“我想在洗澡的时候做一些吐司”以来，它被广泛认为是最大的电子灾难。这(Which)是不公平的，因为它确实取得了巨大的成功。
具体来说，它在“为 Stefan Eriksson、 Johan Enander(Johan Enander)和朋友们提供 24 个月的快车和妓女派对”的预期功能方面取得了巨大成功。Tiger Telematics（Gizmondo的制造商）的商业历史让Grand Theft Auto看起来像Barney Teach Spelling(Barney Teaches Spelling)。该公司的“管理人员”因欺诈和人身暴力被判入狱超过 24 年，他们收购了整个伦敦(London)“模特”机构，毁坏了价值超过 100 万美元的跑车，并拥有整个——以Dannii Minogue、Sting和Busta Rhymes（除其他外）。所有这些支出都得到了股票销售的支持，大概是卖给了用蜡笔签署支票的人，因为当一家公司为持有股票的各方付款时，这不是一家计划长期存在的公司。
2005 年，该公司实际上每天损失超过一百万美元。你可以每分钟点燃一百美元，每分钟不吃不睡，但仍然没有达到那种程度的损失——我向你保证，这些人发现用现金(WAY)做的事情比这更有趣。这是现实生活中的布鲁斯特百万富翁(Millions)。令人惊讶的是，事实证明这并不是愚人节的玩笑，其中一名最初的工作人员现在正试图筹集投资资金以重新启动公司（翻译——他还没有尝试过几种类型的香槟）。这只是证明了有些人迫切希望从“那些电脑游戏的东西”中赚钱，尽管他们甚至不知道如何用谷歌搜索某人。
5. 诈骗骗子
每次我收到 419 垃圾邮件时，我对人类的信心都会下降一个档次（它目前正徘徊在地球核心上方），因为它们不断出现的事实表明，不知何故，它们仍在工作。我完全赞成最终愚蠢的人与他们不应该拥有的现金分开，但我更喜欢诗意的正义——这就是为什么 419eater 的作品如此有趣的原因。电子邮件诈骗可能是我们这个时代最大的在线诈骗，但这并不意味着双方都没有白痴，正如 这个 骗子变成骗子的精彩文章所示。(this wonderful piece)不仅仅是信用卡，或社会保障，哦，不。
他们可以手抄整本哈利波特(Harry Potter)小说。他们扫描页面以证明这一点。
去吧，真的，你必须看到这些——然后每次你的收件箱被另一封“ UIRG3NT LOTTTTERY TIKKIT !!#”邮件堵塞时，你可以想象一个骗子弯腰在他的记事本上，然后
1.抄他的第400页童心未泯
2. 拼命地忽视他手腕上的巨大疼痛
3. 咯咯笑“哇(Woohoo)哦，我要赚这么多免费的钱了”
4. 完全，完全不懂得讽刺。
5 Scams That Marked the Internet
The Internet is fertilе ground for all sorts of scamѕ. Which are the biggest (and funniest) ones thoυgh? We have colleсted 5 that made it prettу big on the Web, check it out.
1. Lonelygirl15
The lonelygirl15 videos were a series of YouTube clips, chronicling the everyday worries of a regular fifteen year old girl and her phenomenally advanced video and editing skills. As the series progressed sinister overtones of cult behavior crept in. Despite being slightly more obviously fake than a video of Bigfoot at Roswell, debate about the veracity of the videos raged for weeks and many were upset when the hoax was revealed. Yes, people publicly announced “I am upset that I was not voyeuristically enjoying the slide of a real underage girl into terror and abuse without doing anything about it.”
The LA Times eventually “exposed” the hoax, and we’re sure that when the previously unheard of film-making “conspirators” were outed there, and in The Times, and The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and PBS they were absolutely horrified. “Man,” they must have said to all the reporters and newscasters who would previously never have looked twice at them, “You really got us there. We didn’t expect this kind of exposure of our hoax at all.”
“We didn’t think it would work half this well.”
2. EVE banker
For those of you who still know what other people and the daystar look like, EVE Online is a massively immersive space-based MMORPG. And we mean immersive like an ocean of quicksand being played on fast forward – it is literally a single entire galaxy, and while other worlds have characters and weapon systems this one has an entire economy. You can actually succeed in the game simply by trading commodities, and the games currency of ISK (Interstellar Kredit) has a real, if not entirely legal, conversion to real money. In fact EVE ISK (0.40 USD per 1M ISK, video games tend to deal in big units) is probably a better investment and more widely used than the actual currency of Iceland Kroner (0.01 USD = 1 ISK). The EVE player population also rivals that of Iceland (about 300,000), and CCP games (the makers) are headquartered in Iceland. Not that we’re suggesting any Reykjavikians should be worried about being replaced by a fanatical army trained by CCP to obey their every command.
People have set up entire businesses in the virtual space of EVE, inverting the whole function of a video game by essentially working two jobs (the first paying the monthly subscription fee for the second), with the average EVE player logging in 2.5 hours a day. In 2006 a player called Cally (real name Dentara Rast) set up the “EVE Investment Bank”, and in yet another example of the amazing unrealistic things that can happen in video games, people entrusted their money to a man named “Cally”.
Over time the bank expanded and eventually had over 700 Billion ISK (over one hundred thousand real, honest to god “You can buy food or sex with these” dollars) in the account. Then, in a corporate crime that real-life CEOs can only dream of (and I’m sure often do), Cally just took all the money and ran. Specifically, he ran and bought an Ultimega-death clas hyper cruiser, put a million ISK bounty on his own head and cruised off into deep space simply daring anyone to try and kill him. See this? THIS is why people play video games so much – in real life white collar crime is fudged numbers and emigration to tax havens, in EVE we’ve got a bank manager who deals with service complaints with a fusion cannon.
3. Bad Company Downloadable Content
The conundrum of downloadable content has really revealed the true spirit of developers. Awesome companies like Valve release free content, because they understand this whole “internet” thing, with its digital distribution and the value behind a beloved brand. Non-awesome companies like EA charge for it, while others like Microsoft hover in the middle with “pay now or free later strategies”. Contrary to what half the population of the Internet would have you believe, though, you can’t actually hate someone because they don’t give away their work for free. Luckily, EA has made it A-OK to hate them again by charging for “non-downloadable content”, otherwise known as “Things you already bought from them.”
For years EA has been working on that whole troublesome “Actually having to produce something in order to earn money” thing, reducing the content of yearly titles with each iteration, and with Bad Company they’ve finally achieved it. What you do, right, is you pay for a Battlefield: Bad Company disc. Or you can pay extra for a version which unlock some of the weapons. Weapons that are, in fact, already on both discs. Yes, EA have achieved the Zen Nirvana of Marketing Bastardry by working out how to sell you the same thing twice and charge each time.
This news was about as well received as a plague rat in an operating theatre, but the fact is that Electronics Arts offices worldwide remain un-burned down proves that Internet critics are very, very vocal online and very, very useless in terms of actually doing things. A boycott movement has already started and we can only hope that once, just once, Internet apathy doesn’t bother to ruin it. Because once they find they can get away with this EA will absolutely grind this practice into the ground long after there’s any remaining point, motivation or sanity. These are the guys who turned the popular Madden game franchise into a yearly sixty-dollar player name update, and that at least started good.
4. Gizmondo
You might recall that we talked about the Gizmondo a couple of weeks ago in our “The 5 Worst Reassurances” article (in which case thanks, regular reader, and might we say how particularly discerning and intelligent you’re looking today?). This is because the Gizmondo turns up in every single negative-adjective technology list on the entire Internet. It’s widely viewed as the greatest electronics disaster since somebody first thought “I’d love to make some toast while in the bath”. Which is unfair, because it was really a huge success.
Specifically, it was a huge success in its intended function of “Provide Stefan Eriksson, Johan Enander and friends with a twenty-four month fast-car-and-hookers party.” The business history of Tiger Telematics (the makers of Gizmondo) makes Grand Theft Auto look like Barney Teaches Spelling. The “managing executives” of the company had over twenty-four years of jail time between them for frauds and physical violence, they bought an entire London “modeling” agency, have wrecked over a million dollars worth of sports cars and had the entire-extended-family-of-all launch parties featuring Dannii Minogue, Sting and Busta Rhymes (among others). All this spending was supported by the sales of shares, presumably to people who signed the cheques in crayon, because when a company is paying for parties with shares then that is not a company that plans to be around for long.
For 2005 the company effectively lost over a million dollars a day. You could light a hundred dollars on fire once a minute, every minute without eating or sleeping and still not achieve that level of loss – and I assure you that these guys found WAY funner things to do with the cash than that. It was a real life Brewster’s Millions. In what amazingly hasn’t turned out to be an April Fool’s joke, one of the original crew is now attempting to raise investment capital to relaunch the company (translation – there are a few types of champagne he hasn’t tried yet). Which just proves that there are people desperate to make money out of “those computer-game things” despite not even knowing how to Google somebody.
5. Scamming the Scammers
Every time I get a 419 spam my faith in humanity goes down a notch (it’s currently hovering just above the Earth’s core), because the fact that they keep coming shows that somewhere, somehow, they’re still working. I’m all in favor of the terminally foolish being parted with cash they shouldn’t have, but I’m an even bigger fan of poetic justice – which is why the work of 419eater is so entertaining. E-mailing scamming might be the biggest online fraud of our time but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t idiots on both sides, as shown in this wonderful piece where the scammers become the scammees. And not just for credit cards, or social security, oh no.
They get to hand copy an entire Harry Potter novel. And they scan the pages to prove it.
Go, really, you have to see these – and then every time your inbox gets clogged with another “UIRG3NT LOTTTTERY TIKKIT!!#” mail, you can picture a scammer hunched over his notepad and
1. copying his four hundredth page of delightful child’s fantasy
2. desperately ignoring the massive, aching pain in his wrist
3. giggling “Woohoo I’m going to make so much free money”
4. utterly, utterly failing to appreciate the irony.
