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.
The ploy has tricked several people on Twitter into thinking that the account is really a part of Shell — after all, why would a joke account tell people not to retweet its tweets because of a potentially damaging spoof?
The page also links to a fake Web site that looks — in terms of layout — almost identical to the real shell.com. But a quick click around shows that most of the links don’t work. The fake site has headlines with jokes such as, “For hundreds of years, explorers have battled the Arctic. Today, we’re finally winning.”
Last month, the site was linked to a movement run by Greenpeace, the Yes Men and participants in the Occupy movement, Forbes reported, and the same people are thought to be behind the new Twitter account.
There was no answer at a phone number provided on the spoof site, which appears to be for an ad agency.
When asked for comment, Shell directed media to a previous statement it made in June about the hoax.
“Journalists, blog readers and YouTube viewers have recently been targeted with scams launched by organizations opposed to energy exploration in Alaska,” the company’s statement reads, referring to the fake photo caption contest and other actions from the group. “The advertising contest is not associated with Shell, and neither is the site it’s on. And Shell did not file legal action in this matter. Our focus is on safely executing our operations.”
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
