Protestors Occupy Bank Of America's Google+ Page
Protestors Occupy Bank Of America's Google+ Page
Posted 11/16/2011 at 11:43am
| by Brad Chacos
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Occupy Wall Street’s protestors have moved on from Oakland and NYC parks; they’ve packed up their beef and taken it to the ‘Net, too. Just one day after Google+ launched its new “Page” functionality for businesses, the Bank of America found its virtual territory occupied by a false profile designed to make them look very, very bad to anybody who happened upon the Page.
The creator of the fake page apparently tricked Google into giving him control of the BoA page, but Google has since given yanked it back and transferred ownership to the Real Deal. As such, the satiric text and pictures have since been scrubbed from the social media service. You can’t scrub anything off the Web completely, though: Sophos’ Naked Security blog conveniently took a snapshot of the page before it was changed, which we’ve posted above. It wasn’t just a static page, either; the creator was actively posting satirical content and links into its streams, such as “Big company party in foreclosed house #2340087 tonight!”
In case you were wondering, the BoA Google+ page now sports one of those nifty little “Verified” checkmarks. Sophos’ Chester Wisniewski notes that “Strangely not all business pages have this verified mark, including BoA's competitor Citibank USA.” Nefariousness or laziness?
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LatiosXT
November 17, 2011 at 9:11am
I think anything that has investors backing it, shouldn't be handling your money directly.
Gezzer
November 17, 2011 at 12:27am
The really sad thing is the people who get the joke are the ones that got screwed as well. The "little guys". Think anyone at BoA actually had a twinge of remorse over everything that's happened because of the hack? Of course not. They most likely got mad and screamed about "petty vandals" and "evil hackers" to Google. Never once realizing the hacked page was more true then their public relations one.
tekknyne
November 16, 2011 at 1:36pm
Wow if those pictures don't scream PSYCHOPATH... you know, now that I think about it, that explains alot. My previous adjective was soulless, but that sounds too fire-and-brimstone. I think PSYCHOPATH more accurately describes some of these big bankers.
gmvolk
November 16, 2011 at 12:26pm
Between banks and big oil, we consumers are getting screwed. Nice to see a little of it going the other way!
firefox91
November 16, 2011 at 11:58am
Now that is funny. And it is time better spent than sleeping in a park, marching around with a sign, and smelling like a sewer.
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