Remember an online prank last fall from a Manhattan restaurant, generating real-looking receipts that were offered up as a way to pad expense accounts? Some of the folks behind it are back with a Web site that generates realistic-seeming “hand scans.”

The Web site, ultimatehandscanner.com, is part of a campaign to introduce a moisturizing hand sanitizer from the Gold Bond line of skin care products sold by Chattem. There are conventional ads for the new item, Gold Bond Ultimate Hand Sanitizer Moisturizer, as well as the fiendishly clever Web site.

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Everybody has a germaphobe in their life. That certain somebody who’s constantly washing their hands, is repulsed by crowds and will only touch doorhandles with their elbow. The Ultimate Hand Scanner is a friendly way to reinforce this paranoia, and possibly make it worse. Log on and in just a few minutes you can have a friend or loved one believing that 1) their computer monitor actually scanned their hand and 2) that they are completely covered in microbes. Luckily for them, there’s Gold Bond Ultimate Hand Sanitizer, Moisturizer - the world’s first hand sanitizer and moisturizer. It won’t dry out your hands, so they can reapply 20 times a day if necessary. See the scanner in action here.