By Hayley Tsukayama, Wednesday, July 18, 9:09 PM
Tweeting under the handle @ShellisPrepared, a group lampooning the oil giant is simultaneously directing people to that page — making it look like a user submission contest gone wrong — while telling visitors not to redistribute the link in the way that a real company would.
“We are maintaining a list of all retweeters and will fwd it to our legal team tomorrow,” the people behind the joke account wrote in just one of dozens of messages. “Please don’t share offensive ads. We’re working to remove them,” readsanother.
EBOOK TITLE: “SIR HENRI DETERDING AND THE NAZI HISTORY OF ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
EBOOK TITLE: “JOHN DONOVAN, SHELL’S NIGHTMARE: MY EPIC FEUD WITH THE UNSCRUPULOUS OIL GIANT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.
EBOOK TITLE: “TOXIC FACTS ABOUT SHELL REMOVED FROM WIKIPEDIA: HOW SHELL BECAME THE MOST HATED BRAND IN THE WORLD” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.
