[IMC] Fwd: Uncaught bounce notification
Mike Lehman
rebelmike at earthlink.net
Thu Apr 19 15:29:12 UTC 2012
FYI,
For some reason, the Yes Lab messages are bouncing. Since it is of
interest, I'm forwarding the bounce in lieu of the original. If anyone
needs the attachment, I can froward that offlist to you on your request.
Mike
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Subject:
Bank of America still not yours... yet.
From:
The Yes Lab <mailing at yeslab.org>
Date:
4/19/2012 8:29 AM
To:
imc-bounces-lists.ucimc.org <imc-bounces at lists.ucimc.org>
April 19, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
*ON-THE-BRINK BANK STILL NOT YOURS (YET)
*/Dow Jones posts fake release for two hours; bank gets fake website
blacklisted, briefly/
Contact: bofa at yeslab.org <mailto:bofa at yeslab.org>
Bank of America executives, investors, and opponents alike reacted with
surprise to yesterday's news
<http://yeslab.org/yourbofa-announce>---posted for two hours on Dow
Jones Newswire
<http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/04/18/bank-america-is-target-fake-press-release/>
and elsewhere---that the mammoth financial institution, realizing it was
heading for a taxpayer bailout, was asking Americans to start thinking
about what they'll do with the bank <http://www.bank-of-you.com/ideas>
once they own it, and to start advertising that vision
<http://bank-of-you.com/gallery> too.
The news, of course, was a hoax.
The fake YourBofA.com website <http://www.bank-of-you.com/> was quickly,
but temporarily, blacklisted by Google as a potential "phishing scam,"
despite the site containing no forms, spyware, or other characteristics
of a site engaging in phishing. Firefox and Google Chrome users who
tried to load YourBofA.com were warned that the site may be "dangerous,"
while some individuals with Gmail accounts reported that emails
containing the URL were bounced back or not delivered. An investigation
<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/18/google-blacklists-bank-of-america-parody-website/>
by Raw Story concluded that "It's likely that Bank of America reported
the site to Google as a phishing scam." Shortly after the article's
publication---and with the help of thousands of volunteers complaining
to Google---the website was taken off the blacklist.
Today's reports of slumping profits
<http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bank-of-america-profit-slumps-68-2012-04-19>
make the fake site all the more timely. "This site is a forum for people
to imagine what they could do with this bank," said Jane O'Heely of the
Yes Lab, one of the site's creators. "The ideas
<http://www.bank-of-you.com/ideas> we've gotten already show we all know
as much as bankers about how a bank ought to be run---and actually, a
good deal more."
"A bank doesn't have to be something that charges you fees, invests your
money in things you abhor, destroys poor communities with predatory
lending, and then threatens to take down the global economy if you don't
agree to bail it out," said Logan Price, who helped create
BreakUpBofA.com <http://www.breakupbofa.com/>. "Thinking of alternatives
to this nightmare
<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314>
is not rocket science."
The hoax was perpetrated by means of a fake press release
<http://yeslab.org/yourbofa-announce>; it was followed two hours later
with a fake angry retort <http://yeslab.org/yourbofa-retort>, so that no
journalist would be fooled for very long. "We wanted to get people
thinking about how they'd run banking differently, not to really fool
anyone," noted O'Heely. "The whole fake release thing was just a way to
publicize it and get people posting ideas <http://bank-of-you.com/ideas>
and ads <http://bank-of-you.com/creative>."
"Any response by Bank of America would just help spread the word, and
they seem to know that," added O'Heely. When Bank of America got Google
to blacklist the website as "phishing"
<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/18/google-blacklists-bank-of-america-parody-website/>
(which it was not), the Yes Lab mobilized 4000 volunteers to complain,
which quickly worked to de-list the site and give this press release a
small extra hook.
The website's centerpiece is an open call <http://bank-of-you.com/ideas>
to American taxpayers to begin considering what they will do after a
bailout, when they'll have a chance to become the company's majority
owners. The "bank" also asks the public to advertise their visions with
a tool <http://bank-of-you.com/creative> for generating web
banners---images that could <http://bank-of-you.com/gallery> give Bank
of America a very real "google problem" not unlike Chevron's
<https://www.google.com/search?q=chevron+%22we+agree%22&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=geGGT9ysIunn0QHMjZ3sBw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1058&bih=631>.
The site also includes a letter from CEO Brian Moynihan that admits to
the bank's many failings
<http://bank-of-you.com/lessons-learned>---short-sighted investment
decisions and the massive accumulation of le gal liabilities, causing
plummeting share prices and inexorably pushing the company towards a
public bailout.
The YourBofA.com website was a collaboration between the Yes Lab
<http://www.yeslab.org/>, Rainforest Action Network <http://ran.org/>,
and New Bottom Line <http://www.newbottomline.com/>. A number of folks
within Occupy Wall Street's <http://occupywallst.org/> Alternative
Banking working group also helped with the site. Like other Yes Lab
websites, this one is hosted by May First / People Link
<https://mayfirst.org/5-1>.
The website comes at a time of rampant distrust of big banks. Even top
Federal Government regulators have recently called for the end of "too
big to fail." As Harvey Rosenblum, the head of the Dallas Fed's research
department, recently wrote
<http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/banking-regulator-calls-for-end-of-too-big-to-fail/>:
"Many of the biggest banks have sputtered, their balance sheets still
clogged with toxic assets accumulated in the boom years... creating a
residue of distrust for the government, the banking system, the Fed and
capitalism itself."
"Most Americans, and even some regulators, see what's wrong with the
state of our banking system," said Price. "We have a real opportunity to
safely and proactively push this company
<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314>
towards managed bankruptcy and create smaller
<http://www.breakupbofa.com/>, more responsive financial institutions
that help American communities rather than harm them."
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