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This is one weird scam. Someone registered the domain Faebook.com (Facebook without a C) and redirected it, using an iframe, to Amazon - of course, with his/her own Amazon referrals. It's the good old tactics of using misspelled domain names for profit, but it's uncommon to see such an obvious misspelling of a site as big as Faebook used like this.
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It's not Amazon's doing - it's hard to believe that they'd try to profit from Facebook's popularity in such a sleazy way. You can see who the domain Faebook.com belongs to with the help of whois:
Domain Name: FAEBOOK.COM
Registrant [1003228]:
Moniker Privacy Services
20 SW 27th Ave.
Suite 201
Pompano Beach
FL
33069
US
Amazon's own records look different:
Registrant:
Amazon.com, Inc
Legal Dept, P.O. Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108-1226
US
Domain Name: AMAZON.COM
What's weird about this example is this: why on Earth would one use a misspelled Facebook domain name to link to Amazon? Are there really people out there who want to go to Facebook, misspell the name, land at an Amazon looking page and then go: oh, let's buy the new Harry Potter book? I'd say that a generic AdSense farm would work better, but then again, I'm not an expert on scams. Alexa's numbers don't put the site in the top 100.000, but Compete begs to differ, and I really wonder how much the owner is making out of this. Perhaps I'm in the wrong business (:.
Thanks to Otis for the tip.