bogus website?

Robert Parks via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:15:52 PDT
There are so many AI fantasy/bogus websites out there now scraping content
from other sites. At least the bogus sales are often obvious. Super
annoying when you are trying to find cultural information for an obscure
species, and you find outright fantasy AI sites AND AI scrape sites that
have no judgement, so their content is a mishmash of real info and AI
fantasy info. Gross.

Always huge gratitude for the PBS wiki, and the handful of other curated
sites that get it right.

Robert

On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 6:47 AM Mary Sue Ittner via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

> Out of curiosity I was seeing if there were any sources for a rare bulb
> that has been lost in the area where I live. Telos listed it out of
> stock, but looking at places that list it, most had 0 sources. Then I
> found a website where it was available on sale. That seemed very
> suspicious so I searched to see if the website was listed as a scam. I
> didn't find that, but on further searching the web site listed their
> address as a place in California I never heard of with a zipcode for a
> town in South Dakota. If you put in the address and change California
> for South Dakota, that address doesn't exist.  And the town with that
> zipcode has a census of 600 people.  South Dakota seems like a strange
> place to be offering bulbs and all the other things they were selling
> which would have to be obtained elsewhere. Some of the bulbs that were
> being offered now should be planted in spring. When I put in species
> tulip in the search, it showed me a broom. So if they used AI to create
> this site, it still needs work. If it looks too good, to be true, it
> probably is. Buyer beware. The name is GreenPzi.
>
> Mary Sue
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