This is a website that purports to allow average people like you or me to create a Wikipedia-type article about their life stories. That’s great, except I think the whole website is a scam and probably completely fake, to boot. You can’t even look at anyone else’s page on there unless you become a member, and even then you have to request an invite from them and wait for a yes to even do so. I’m willing to bet all those user profiles they flash on the front page of the site are fake.
The site was started by a guy named “Mark Hamilton”, whose real name is Wallace H. Ward, the son of Wallace Ward senior (or “Frank Wallace”), this guy:
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“Mark Hamiltion” (Wallace H. Ward) is the head of Integrated Managagement Associates, a mail-order scam and gimmick to sell Napoleon Hill-type b.s. Prosperity Theology genre books:
“Mr. Hamilton” is also involved in “Neo-Think” and “The Twelve Visions Party”, which you can Google if you want to but they’re just more new age money cult scam b.s.
If you look at the Peoplepedia site, maybe you can tell me if I’m right, that the site is probably fake and the user accounts shown on the screen are fake and non-existent. There’s no Wikipedia article about this site (if you search Wikipedia for “Peoplepedia” all you’ll find is a book by that name printed in 1996, a book about American culture (The Peoplepedia - Wikipedia)).
Let me know what you can find out about this “website”. All evidence points to it being a fake scam.
It does look weird - on the face of it, just some sort of weird blog platform, but that bit about sending you ‘one of my coveted, hand-selected writings that tends to boost people’s well-being and wealth!’ makes it sound like a cult, or MLM.
I scanned the terms and policies and I didn’t see any stipulation that you must use your true legal identity when signing up. I might sign up with one of my scambaiting accounts and see what happens…
OK, I signed up… Well, someone called Spatula Grime signed up.
It appears to be a really terribly clunky and unintuitive social network of some sort. There are lots of people registered - some of them, you can view parts of their profile and info (or maybe partial info is all they entered); navigation is slow - everything is slow. There is a search function and it returns results, eventually.
Some people, you can’t see their profile until you send them something that appears to work like a friend request.
The whole site is like someone described Facebook to aliens and they decided to recreate it, but gave the job of coding it to one of their kids.
I see no reason to assume that the profiles would be fake. It’d be easier to make a real site like that to make a fake one. Once you manage to rope someone into joining, why not let them make a vanity page?
Of course, in addition to that, it’s also a hard sell for his MLM or whatever it is.
The testimonials seem too perfect, hitting all the right bullet points to attract visitors to this site. They also appear to be written by the same person or an AI. Coupled with a checkered past, the use of a pseudonym, and a mandatory email submission to join, this raises serious red flags to me for a potential phishing campaign. To top it off, the guy looks like David Spade, and Spade always struck me as a bit sneaky.
True, once someone puts in their info - birthday, names of their pets, etc. and you’ve already got their email address then you’ve got a pretty good base for figuring out their passwords on other websites.
