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HSBC Redirects "Young Entrepreneurs" To Porn Site

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HSBC is having a difficult time getting out of its own way. The bank, which, as we noted in February, is second only to US real estate when it comes to the enabling of tax evasion and parking of criminal money and generally catering to shady offshore oligarchs, dictators, rock stars, monarchs, and even outright criminals, saw a list surface earlier this year which showed that its 2007-era Swiss arm helped “royal families, convicted cocaine dealers, ambassadors, terror suspects, entertainers, elected officials, corporate executives, and athletes” hide money from tax authorities. 

While no one was surprised at the bank’s conduct, the report was, as Bloomberg noted at the time, a more “comprehensive list of accounts associated with more than 100,000 people and legal entities from more than 200 nations, ranging from the legitimate to the illicit.” Shortly thereafter, CEO Stuart Gulliver was sucked into the scandal after it was revealed that he was the beneficial owner of an account registered to an anonymous Panamanian company where he may have sheltered nearly $8 million. Meanwhile, The Telegraph’s top political commentator quit, after suggesting that a £250 million loan from HSBC had made the paper hopelessly biased in its coverage of the bank. 

As embarrassing (or perhaps “inconvenient” is the more appropriate term) as all of that is, and as annoying as it probably is to have your highly profitable money laundering business interfered with by party-crashing tax authorities who don’t want you doing business with Mexican drug cartels or nations which may be suffering under international sanctions, the latest HSBC faux pas may be the most amusing yet, because as The South China Morning Post reports, anyone attempting to access the home of HSBC’s Young Entrepreneur Awards (which ceased to exist in 2011), was recently redirected to a porn site. Here’s more:

Those accessing the page for HSBC’s defunct Young Entrepreneur Awards – originally displayed in a section of hsbc.com.hk – would be surprised or embarrassed to find a site showing images of women in provocative poses or having sex.

 

The awards were scrapped in 2011 and the porn site took over the address after organisers allowed its registration to expire.

 

A banking source said it was “a blunder” in which the hyperlink’s URL, which originally connected to a third-party webpage, was transferred to the pornography business.

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The bank did apologize in a statement and assured the public that it wasn’t affiliated with the third party site “in any way.” 

So Mexican drug cartels and terrorists are welcome, but porn site operators will apparently have to take their business elsewhere. 

 

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Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:34 | 6024036 Cognitive Dissonance
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They are all whores. Get used to it being in your face obvious soon enough.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:45 | 6024065 css1971
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I think you are defaming whores.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:51 | 6024084 WTFUD
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Yep whores earn their money at 2 barrels of a dick

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 20:13 | 6024339 TruxtonSpangler
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Dont forget current FBI director James Comey was on the BoD of HSBC during the cartel money laundering thing...

The revolving door, Bitchez.

 

(Honorable mention for taking down Martha Stewart too)

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 20:21 | 6024371 Four chan
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high school bung chompers xxx

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 21:01 | 6024498 Buckaroo Banzai
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You know you want to know, so here's the link: http://asiayea.com/

Click at your own risk.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 21:30 | 6024582 Dickweed Wang
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Four chan - best avatar EVER!!

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 03:39 | 6025194 Blano
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Shoulda seen Pladizow's back in the day...makes that one look tame by comparison.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:45 | 6024066 Herd Redirectio...
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Oh hey, look, its HSBC.

Which has been linked with drug smuggling... Since forever.  Since literally the Dawn of Time.

God said "Let there be HSBC and drug smuggling. God looked over all that he hath made and behold, it was very good."

Next you will tell me Yale Skull & Bones members are involved in this, and intelligence agency activity? 

Banks->Intelligence Agencies->Drug Smuggling Cartels->Banks->Intel....

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 20:14 | 6024347 TruxtonSpangler
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Im pretty sure HSBC is the rebranded East India Company

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:47 | 6024074 Lumberjack
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 Whores seems to be a compliment to them. 

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:35 | 6024042 Atomizer
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You can make $7,000/month redirecting traffic to our back links. 

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:40 | 6024051 Weaponized Innocense
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Chili and others w the $7000 stuff been quiet since my comment about that stuff yesterday.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:44 | 6024062 El Vaquero
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He's probably busy with the DVDA shoot.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:36 | 6024043 Weaponized Innocense
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Lol

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:39 | 6024046 Lmo Mutton
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$7000 a month?? Pbttt.  My friends little sister has a cat that makes more than that form home.

Sorry, no link.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:43 | 6024057 Larry Dallas
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Everytime I see their bullshit ads at JFK in the jetway heading to the plane, I want to put bumperstickers over them that says Bullshit.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:50 | 6024082 Lumberjack
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Ever seen 'The Honorable Jon Corzine' name on the plaque showing the board members of the 911 memorial? Made me sick.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:56 | 6024098 WTFUD
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No shame! Who's the cunt he's fund-raising for this time round?

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:44 | 6024063 Wahooo
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They're just collecting deposits.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 22:27 | 6024716 ThroxxOfVron
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One Customer at a time.

 

He he he ha ha...

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:45 | 6024067 MajorFall
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Wehell, I think I will open up an account there!

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:53 | 6024090 nmewn
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HSBC is to Silk Road as terrorists are to freedom fighters? ;-)

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 19:51 | 6024257 New_Meat
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babez at least give honest return for dem services, don't cha' know

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:57 | 6024102 Fun Facts
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Once you get a job there they teach you advanced money laundering, fraud, racketeering and how to interact with drug cartel kingpins.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 19:03 | 6024117 Bastiat
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Nothing on nailgun safety or avoidance of 9.8m/sec^2 exposure?

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 21:27 | 6024573 Dickweed Wang
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Once you get a job there they teach you advanced money laundering, fraud, racketeering and how to interact with drug cartel kingpins.

And once you graduate you can go to Goldman Sucks to get your PHD in raping and pillaging . . .

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 19:01 | 6024113 Bay of Pigs
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HSBC, the poster child for precious metals manipulation and "custodian" of GLD.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 19:24 | 6024172 Kirk2NCC1701
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It could have been worse for the bank:  The link could have redirected them to Zerohedge.com

You like that one, Tyler?  ;-)

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 19:36 | 6024212 Bay Area Guy
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Sex sells. The Young Entrepreneurs can all set up porn sites.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 20:07 | 6024324 Yen Cross
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   3dicks+2 pussies = faggot.  Any Questions?

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 22:11 | 6024646 Rakshas
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hmmmmmmmmm let's see...... I get

I-O-I + I-O

..... still leaves room for at least one more before it starts to resemble a  Clinton family reunion....... and you can cross link the triad with the bipole to get a little chick chick nipple action if my math is correct......

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 20:38 | 6024420 Joe Tierney
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Waitaminute!

 

Why is that whore in the picture facing the same way as her butt is facing?????

 

Oh, ok, I get it now - she's not just a whore, but she's a twisted whore!

 

Good analogy for a bank.....

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 22:05 | 6024674 Rakshas
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..... I didn't think the girl represented the bank..... actually I thought she represented how the bank sees us...... I guess like any art form it's all subject to the interpretation of the viewer.....

 

and in the interest of disclosure it is very common for FEA chicks to be extremely flexible with an incredible ability to multitask...... it's like being mauled by an insatiable puma...........

 

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 22:25 | 6024711 ThroxxOfVron
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Dear Anonymous Insider/Hacker,

 

Two big thumbs up!

Thanks for spelling it out.  

I hope you never get caught.

 

Extra thanks for teh lulz !

 

ThroxxOfVron

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