# anyone think this is real **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 8, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-this-is-real/363596 "2006-07-08T03:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-this-is-real/363596/41 "2006-07-09T03:46:26Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I expect that he is after cash through his misleading advertising, rather than after cash from stolen credit card numbers. Can’t he do both? After all, there’s no law against…oh wait, there is! ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-this-is-real/363596/42 "2006-07-09T04:28:28Z")
> [@](#): > > It took me to a secure Paypal site, security certificate and all. Shouldn’t there be an **https://** in the URL and a little padlock thingie in the status bar? And I always get the same robot-proofing security image (CF52H) at the bottom of the page no matter how many times I close & reopen the page. Isn’t that supposed to be a randomly generated character string? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-this-is-real/363596/43 "2006-07-09T04:39:06Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > Oh for fuck sake! If this guy is for real he deserves a little slack. Fuck me I feel sorry enough for the guy that I am going to look in to it and if its for real I will sure as shit send the guy a box of towels. > > Anybody got any insight? Here’s an insight. Guy posts a link to his site. He asks the question of the message board at large, “Anyone think this is real?” Keep in mind that the guy who owns the site is the guy who posted the link. I think it is an insightful observation to calculate that there is a _very_ low likelihood that the owner of the website needs the opinions of anyone else on the question of whether the site is real or bogus. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-this-is-real/363596/44 "2006-07-09T06:36:53Z")
Seems this giblee posts and runs on various message boards. A quick Google turns up a few posts of the “Is this site for real?” variety. As others have posted, I rather think that he should know if his site is for real or not, and is just phrasing his posts that way in a clumsy effort to appear not connected with it. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-this-is-real/363596/45 "2006-07-09T13:52:03Z")
> [@Patty O'Furniture](#): > > Shouldn’t there be an **https://** in the URL and a little padlock thingie in the status bar? The use of “frames” buggers up the display of the padlock. Try checking for a security certificate (if you are using Explorer, left click then select “properties”, then select “certificates”.) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-this-is-real/363596/46 "2006-07-09T14:54:17Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > Can’t he do both? After all, there’s no law against…oh wait, there is! If the paypal page on which the credit card info is given is in fact a paypal page, then no, he will not receive the credit card information. Paypal will receive the credit card information so that it can handle the transaction, but it will not pass it on to him. All he will get is the funds. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-this-is-real/363596/47 "2006-07-11T14:39:08Z")
All I know is that he’s a witless w\*nker, and I have a postal address for him. And it isn’t towels I’ll be sending… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-this-is-real/363596/48 "2006-07-11T15:49:05Z")
Why in my day, we used “Piss Boys”. Oh Piss Boy! ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-this-is-real/363596/49 "2006-07-11T16:21:50Z")
Maybe someone should foward the OP’s URL to [this website,](http://www.ic3.gov/) and ask them if they think it is real. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-this-is-real/363596/50 "2006-07-12T20:41:14Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > What a shame. If the guy actually begged for TOWELS (not money) and hosted pictures of his “Towel Rack Of Fame”, etc…it could have been something. Or sold the piss-stained towels as original art. “Why would I pay money for something my three-year-old could do at home?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-this-is-real/363596.md?page=2)