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📣 moody5bundle

Is Linus Torvalds GitHub page a scam?


I have stumbled upon a weird thing today and don't know what to think about it: if you navigate on Linus Torvald's github page (https://github.com/torvalds) you see he is a member of one organization. I was curious about that organization and went to check it out (https://github.com/DROPCitizenShip) and the link on their profile is pointing to a very weird scam site...? you will only see the scam once, when you visit the first time, every other visit so far produced a simple looking landing page. Did I drink too much tea today or why does this seem so off to me?


  👤 smitop Accepted Answer ✓
It looks like the domain just expired, and got picked up by someone later to use it with some advertising service that does these redirects.

👤 CTOSian
good spot! you can report this on github btw.