"Peter Lim" Still Sharing How To Get Rich Quick

They still want to BURY ME



Nearly a month after lodging police report against online adverstisement linking him with the 'get-rich-quick' scams, "They really want to BURY ME" advertisements are still running on Facebook today.


The Straits Times article (29 Aug 2016) on Peter Lim making police report.
(http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/peter-lim-makes-police-report-against-online-articles-linking-him-to-get-rich-quick-scams)

Facebook Ads on "Burying Peter Lim" captured on 23 Sep 2016. 


Clicking on the ad brings you to URL http://www.makingthenewstody.com/sg/db/straighttimes-peter-lim-article/index.html, that 100% replicating the web template of The Straits Times but clicking on whichever links on the page will just bring you to the scam site.

Scam site mimicking the web template of The Straits Times captured on 23 Sep 2016. 



and the domain of scam site was registered only 2 weeks ago.


Whois makingthenewstody.com


So..... 

Purpose of Peter Lim lodging police report is just to draw the line between himself and the scammer, and not to identify the scammers and sue them for "inappropiate use of other's identity'? 

I wonder if there is such a law on "faking the website" and whether SPH has done anything on this matter or they only busy with asking those bloggers who help to advertise their articles to pay the copyright fee. 

I also wonder if SPF is spending the effort to find out who the hell the scammers are and whether Facebook has any policy to stop such advertisement. It is as complicated as a Singapore registered car got kissed by non-Singapore registered car in our neighbouring country and the only thing you can do is only to blame it to your own bad luck and then pay the bill to repair yourself. 

But....

I am quite sure that the advertisers are either too clever to manoeuvre among the thin line of law hence catch-me-if-you-can, or the risk reward ratio is 1:10000000000, or they didn't bother to read our local newspaper. 








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