Nigerian Scams for Auction?
February 5th, 2006 by Kelson. Posted in Humor, Spam and tagged for 419, advertising, ebay, Humor, scam, SpameBay must have some sort of blanket advertising deal with Google, because the “sponsored links” you get for some searches really don’t make any sense.
Case in point: I did a Google search for the phrase, “nigerian scam,” and saw the following ad:
Wow, when they say, “Whatever it is, you can get it here.”—they really mean it! 
Interestingly, if you search for “419 scam,” you get the same type of ad, but not if you search for “advance fee fraud.”
I tried a few random search terms, and from what I can tell, eBay’s ad shows up on many—but not all—two-word searches. I’m not sure what the pattern is, but I can’t imagine someone at eBay deliberately asked to buy ad space for some of these phrases.
But in a show of accuracy, if you search for “random stuff,” you’ll find it!
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