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Also what is with that address, A108 Adam Street with a Manhattan zip code that doesn’t exist? Google seems to place it at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan, which definitely isn’t a place that receives mail. There’s also a long list of scammy looking companies using that address.

Edit: also looks like Google maps places it at the park down by Dumbo. Very weird.

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Yes, searching for that does produce a bunch of odd results, many of which use "info@example.com" as their email address and literal "Lorem ipsum" as description : https://www.google.com/search?q=%22A108+Adam+Street%22

Some of the results also include the odd term "Bootstrap Template". Perhaps there is some web building tool that uses this address as the filler text on a template page?

It is a total scam - there's no such address in 10006. Anyone who is a CEO is not going to have an address of the office written incorrectly. The scammer(s) have not spent any time in NY hence they do not know that New York, NY is Manhattan but Brooklyn, NY is Brooklyn even though both are in New York City, NY

What is mind boggling in that some idiots at 76ers and NBA got swindled by clearly a non-existent entity.

Putting the virtual in virtual reality, can't fault them for inconsistency if nothing is real on any level.

That's exactly it:

https://bootstrapmade.com/demo/Flattern/

Bootstrap is just a front-end web framework and there's nothing inherently wrong with using a nice-looking Bootstrap template to get a decent site up fast. Real companies doing that make sure to swap in their own contact info, though. Every search result with the Adam street non-address is for something shady.

The hilarious part is this “CEO” just rolled with the fake address from the Bootstrap theme then and put it on his letterhead.

He literally lives in a van down by the river.

I see a lot of fake companies/websites list their address as 405 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017 -- which is the UN's NY HQ. There's a few mailing centers with P.O. Boxes in the area that a lot of fake companies are registered to as well. They must think having Manhattan in their address lends them some credibility.

They must think having Manhattan in their address lends them some credibility.

It does. That's why, thanks to number portability, you can sell a 212 area code number for hundreds, or even thousands of dollars.

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