Jesso busts a Madras Mom - Explaining the cnbc scam

One of my friends in facebook just put this on his status,

 "are you serious about starting your own business in 2011? you have to check this out - http://t.co/q4bfMkga"

Now, if you visit this link it takes you to "http://www.cnbc.com-id.us/t/?blabla=1?t=38627"

Which is CNBC, the CNBC we all know, or wait is it really???

Let me break the URL apart.

"http://www.cnbc.com-id.us/" Note the bold part. So, really the website is NOT cnbc.com

To be clear "http://www.cnbc.com-id.us/" is NOT EQUAL TO http://www.cnbc.com

Why not?

well the extension  -id.us shows us that it is something like http://developers.facebook.com. So, facebook could similarly very well have something like google.com.facebook.com/ It would still belong to facebook. Things don't end at .com, if that is not the last thing in the address bar.

So google has something like mail.google.com, that is mail in google's domain. Similarly google could have named google plus as facebook.com-google.com!!! It would go to google's servers.

The scam site is really *cnbc* in "com-id.us" domain. Well, this is the one line which really matters...
To make the scam complete all the hyperlinks point to the real cnbc.com BUT all the links which are related to the scam go to http://www.cnbc.com-featured.us/

But for people who took so much pain, the real joke is Patrica Feeney - Madras Mom, come on, how about Chennai Mom, Ooops, I'm sorry I just found out that there is some Madras in Jefferson County in Oregon, but to find other Chennai guys dreaming of making big bucks sitting in your home or just dreaming about seeing Patrica Feeney in your neighborhood, sorry...