Internet prank targets Berlusconi days before election

[MrPrax]

An apparent Internet prank targeting Silvio Berlusconi days before a general election is causing a Google search of the words "wretched" and "failure" to bring up the Italian premier's CV posted on the government's official Web site.


Italy's telecommunications watchdog body said Friday it has received dozens of complaints about the trick, which causes those entering the Italian words for "wretched" and "failure" into a search engine to bring up a link to the site.

The prank comes at the end of a divisive and bitter campaign pitting Berlusconi, a conservative media mogul, against his center-left opponent, Romano Prodi. Elections are scheduled for Sunday and Monday.

Italy's communications authority said it alerted the postal police, which was investigating the prank.

AP story posted on TCM

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde

Since the Postal Police haven't been too successful yet--The Brothers and Sisters in Italia should have NO fears...

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