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xthestreams | 3 years ago

cnr.it is a domain which belongs to the Italian Research Council, and that subdomain seems to be a blog by the Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems.

These are not scammers, it's probably an amateur researcher which published that information in a blog which is usually read by no-one. Probably it wasn't even meant to be public. But because of the prestige of the domain, it becomes first in relevant searches.

If you track down the author and send him a quick mail, I'm 100% sure they'll help.

I've worked at CNR.

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raverbashing|3 years ago

Correct, it looks more like a page containing useful info for their users/students etc

There are plenty of scam pages, but specifically this one doesn't look like it

rchaud|3 years ago

> it's probably an amateur researcher which published that information in a blog which is usually read by no-one.

Ah, but this is the new method of SEO trickery and credential scamming. Publishing a 'guest post' on a high-ranking blog subdomain of a trusted instititution. There was a story of someone doing this on Harvard University's blogs, which I can't find right now.

But I found something even better. An actual UpWork posting promising to publish your crap on Chapman.edu's university blog:

https://www.upwork.com/services/product/5-high-da-dofollow-g...

pyb|3 years ago

Still, it appears someone at CNR copy-pasted someone else's blog and published it as their own.

oefrha|3 years ago

No, the very first thing in the blog post is a link to the original, so it’s highly unlikely they wanted to pretend to be the author.

More like someone who didn’t care much about copyright or license decided to back up information they found useful in their personal blog.