I got a Google ad just now for an entity the Central Bank recently issued a warning about:
Better Rates Today – Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm
Better Rates Today – Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm. This investment scam is an example of a “comparison website scam”, where fraudsters set up a website purporting to help consumers find and compare different investment or savings products.www.centralbank.ie
Have reported with link to the above. The scammer website even links to the main Central Bank website!!
Sounds like people, with the best will and intentions in the world, may be fighting a losing battle trying to get takedowns on stuff like this with increasingly unregulated online corporate behemoths like Google. What's the point? Why not just ignore what are presumably obvious scam ads, use a different search engine/digital ecosystem, and/or give up on trying to white knight people who are probably going to get scammed one way or another anyway?
The point is to help others especially those that are vulnerable and/or trust Google AdWords.
I got a Google ad just now for an entity the Central Bank recently issued a warning about:
Better Rates Today – Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm
Better Rates Today – Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm. This investment scam is an example of a “comparison website scam”, where fraudsters set up a website purporting to help consumers find and compare different investment or savings products.www.centralbank.ie
Have reported with link to the above. The scammer website even links to the main Central Bank website!!
"We decided not to take this ad down. We found that the ad doesn’t go against Google’s policies". FFS.No response to my report, yet.
A "rate our support" request from the domain registrar of one of these sites prompted me to check what actually happened on foot of my abuse / scam reports. I never got a reply at the time, but I see that site is now down.I'm going to report to their registrar (Bahamas) and DNS & web host (Iceland, might get somewhere!) also.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?