This site IS legit, right?
http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Lord General Drache sent me to it...
Pepe Dominguez
15-11-2005, 07:59
Pyramid scheme.. :(
Pepe Dominguez
15-11-2005, 08:14
Eh?
Dunno.. sounds fishy.
Dunno.. sounds fishy.
Uh...well...um...
Looking around on Google, it seems to be somewhat legit, but the phishing sense is going off.
And Amazon.com's site is strangely silent about this.
And Amazon.com's site is strangely silent about this.
There's a lot of weird kids on the internet that would gladly spend a spend of their lives doing this and making $100 in a go.
Sick Nightmares
15-11-2005, 15:40
Don't know how much THIS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk)will help, but here ya go.
Teh_pantless_hero
15-11-2005, 16:05
Scam site. It is not on Amazon servers yet requires you to use an Amazon account and no its own account. All verificationals links are to legit areas on the amazon.com servers so as to make the appearance of a legit site.
Eynonistan
15-11-2005, 16:21
Scam site. It is not on Amazon servers yet requires you to use an Amazon account and no its own account. All verificationals links are to legit areas on the amazon.com servers so as to make the appearance of a legit site.
Are you sure? It's a redirect from the Amazon domain mturk.amazon.com and has been featured on Slashdot amongst others...
Skinny87
15-11-2005, 16:50
*Begins waving arms wildly in the air*
"Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!"
Yeah....seriously, this looks dodgy, and if Amazons website isn't saying anything, I wouldn't act on it. If you really, really want to try this, and I'd advise against it personally, email Amazon and enquire about its legitimacy.
Eynonistan
15-11-2005, 17:04
*Begins waving arms wildly in the air*
"Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!"
Yeah....seriously, this looks dodgy, and if Amazons website isn't saying anything, I wouldn't act on it. If you really, really want to try this, and I'd advise against it personally, email Amazon and enquire about its legitimacy.
Amazon's site doesn't mention it except for here http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/102-5816363-5326561?node=3435361
and here
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/102-5816363-5326561?_encoding=UTF8&node=3487571&no=3435361&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA
and a whole variety of other places. Google is a magical thing!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&safe=off&q=mechanical+turk+site:amazon.com&spell=1
Anybody a little happier now?
Teh_pantless_hero
15-11-2005, 17:05
Are you sure? It's a redirect from the Amazon domain mturk.amazon.com and has been featured on Slashdot amongst others...
You can redirect to anywhere from anywhere.
I used Amazon's own web search engine and didn't turn up any of those links. Useless engine.
They do one hell of a job hiding their webservices, you have to go into help, then pick Services, then pick web services but it isn't there, oh no, it is in another link on the web services page you have to follow.
Eynonistan
15-11-2005, 17:08
You can redirect to anywhere from anywhere.
Not if you don't have control of the originating domain or a whole swathe of intermediate network architecture in the first place!
Waterkeep
15-11-2005, 17:28
Go to www.amazon.com (Don't copy and paste, type it in yourself, that way you know I'm not using funky european characters.)
Click "Sell Your Stuff"
Click "Web Services"
Click "Announcing Amazon Mechanical Turk"
Scroll down, click "mturk.amazon.com" and you will be sent to the initial link in this thread.