No kidding.
There are sites that will take whatever verbal BS you cook up and stick it into frightenly real facimilies of real news sites, which you can then post as links to unsuspecting people. Only someone with some knowledge of how URLs are arranged or a high BS threshold could easily catch one of these out.
I'm no dummy and I've nearly fallen into a couple of these booby traps myself.
"Constant vigilance!" as Madeye Moody used to say.