Serious Question

[redietz]

Has anyone ever heard of anything resembling this? Is this a case of a tribal getting caught with its hands in the cookie jar?

What finding would force "an evacuation?"

https://www.timesnews.net/news/brist...2682c396f.html

[accountinquestion]

Has anyone ever heard of anything resembling this? Is this a case of a tribal getting caught with its hands in the cookie jar?

What finding would force "an evacuation?"

https://www.timesnews.net/news/brist...2682c396f.html

The article is far too vague to come up with much speculation. I'm not sure what evacuation means outside of a vague sense. Evacuation could just mean shutting down and having people leave and the author isn't native English speaker.

[redietz]

Oh, I think the odd use of language in the various articles is purposeful. LOL. The machines are "broken," so we "evacuated."

"Evacuated" may be, and I am speculating here, a nice way of re-interpreting the fact that the Virginia Lottery forced you to immediately shut down.

[accountinquestion]

Oh, I think the odd use of language in the various articles is purposeful. LOL. The machines are "broken," so we "evacuated."

"Evacuated" may be, and I am speculating here, a nice way of re-interpreting the fact that the Virginia Lottery forced you to immediately shut down.

Fair enough. I thought the wording was from the newspaper as their link did not go directly to the casino statement. That newspaper seems questionable.

I see what you mean though.

Do you have any theories as to what law/rule they were breaking requiring an "evacuation" ?

[DRich]

Could really be anything based on that article. Maybe their fire suppression system is down.

[smurgerburger]

Rampart shut down for a few days due to a pipe burst iirc.

I'm guessing "in compliance with VA lottery regulations" doesn't mean anything interesting, just that they kicked people of machines in an orderly fashion.

[PositiveVariance]

There is definitely something suspect about this news site...

I was always aware of shady journalism sites who were motivated by money, not politics, but during my research on gambling Scammer Christopher Mitchell, I saw an entire other side of these "fake" sites. When I say "fake", I don't mean "Fake News", as Trump would say. Think more of "scam".

I can not say with certainty that this site, "Times News" is 100% "fake", but it does have many of the clues to it being "fake". After 3 articles it wants me to pay, to see more. This im itself is not alarming.

They get income many different ways, the most common is they take money to publish a "fluff" piece about you or your business. It's basically an advertisement, that the reader would believe was a typical unbiased news article. They definitely wouldn't believe the subject of the article paid the publication to have them write whatever they wanted.

Christopher Mitchell would pay between $200-$500 to these "fake" news outlets, to publish his "story". This was done so he could link the articles and it could give him instant "credibility". He did this with at least 15 of these publications. It also would push the real articles of his scamming and actual reviews, further done in the search results.Even folks that are not scamming will use this technique to get anything negative pushed to the 2 and 3 page of Google.

Most of these "fake" news outlets are run out of India. Like the article above, they specifically target small towns and use key words specific to that city. Most of the articles are rewritten articles from legit news sources - most are just outright plagiarized. Many times if you reverse image search the writers picture, it will come back to Shutterstock (site you pay to use the pictures they own copyrights to). They always have very "American sounding names" (ex. John Smith). One person can run over a hundred of these sites.

Being in India, good luck suing for copyright violations. They target small towns since they are more likely to get a following.

How do they make money?
-writing PAID Ads
-paid subscribers (largest income source)
- Legitimate Ad's (Steve's Used Car's)
-paid classifieds
-paid obituaries lol
-google ad's

Remember, the wages I'm India are very low. This can be VERY lucrative to them.There only overhead is paying the Host.

Outside of possible copywriter violations, they really aren't doing anything illegal. Even legitimate news sources straight up get 99% of their news from other news sources. They are better about not straight up plagiarizing.



Here is a link to one of Chrissy's paid articles. It is very easy to see how one would believe it was a legitimate article:
(I don't remember exactly what he paid for this one, but around $200)

https://nyweekly.com/entertainment/t...g-individuals/


Even publications that were once legitimate are now doing this. He paid his way into "Men's Journal". My guess is this one cost him over a grand. The chumps he gets from it are priceless.

I have emailed many publications that I knew ahead of time were fake publications, and would write these type of articles. Let me tell you, there is NOTHING off limits with most of these guys. However, the bolder the claims you make, the more it cost. A couple of them even told ME to write the article MYSELF, then we can negotiate the price depending on how far I pushed the limits lol.