Tag Archives: scams

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Files Racketeering Suits Over Alleged Crypto-App Scams  Bloomberg Source link

A version of a scam has hit panicky travelers over and over and over and over. People searching Google for airline contact information when they have a problem occasionally find bogus customer service phone numbers listed at or near the top of Google. If you call, crooks posing as airline reps try to persuade you to pay to rebook a flight or another task. Your money goes poof. No one knows how often this scam happens. But this airline customer service misdirection is common knowledge in the… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google? More like Screw-gle: The search giant’s ad-market scams  New York Post Source link

HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) – Our Local4 Scam Alert of the Week focuses on businesses, and in particular the business profiles they have on Google. We’ve all seen how businesses can share their phone numbers, addresses and even menus for restaurants, but what a lot of the business owners might not know is how easy it is to be scammed out of that profile online. Better Business Bureau Public Relations Director Josh Planos says it’s a relatively easy process for scammers. ”If you own a company,… Source link

A self-described “doctor” has a lesson she’d like to teach investors about decentralized finance (DeFi), an increasingly popular lending sector that’s become a battleground against cryptocurrency-related fraud. Even the most experienced DeFi players can find themselves wrong-footed by hacks and fraud. Yet retail investors in the sector are hungry for basic fraud protection, giving rise to a new breed of “vigilantes” and startup businesses to address the demand. Over a year ago, one Silicon… Source link

Cryptocurrency popularity has boomed in recent years, and celebrities have gotten in on the fanfare. But as criminal activity in the space soars, so has the likelihood that influencer endorsements could lure investors into costly digital-asset scams. Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, and former NBA star Paul Pierce are among recent celebrities in the hot seat for their crypto promotions, accused in a lawsuit filed earlier this month in California of using their fame to “pump” a… Source link

Soaring retail and institutional interest in cryptocurrency last year also led to a boom in criminal activity that cost investors billions, underscoring the urgency of efforts to regulate the digital coin movement.  According to research firm Chainalysis, cryptocurrency addresses associated with illegal activity accumulated $14 billion. But when weighted against all cryptocurrency activity, the figure accounted for a relatively paltry 0.15% of total funds changing hands on any blockchain —… Source link

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — This week, the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment focuses on building a digital defense against Google Voice authentication scams. What is Google Voice? It’s a service – brought to you by Google, of course – that allows you to set up a new virtual phone number that can be used to make domestic and international calls or send and receive text messages. You don’t even have to have a Google Voice account to get scammed in this particular scheme…. Source link

The UK’s more expansive, post-Brexit role in digital regulation continues to be felt today via a policy change by Google which has announced that it will, in the near future, only run ads for financial products and services when the advertiser in question has been verified by the financial watchdog, the FCA. The Google Ads Financial Products and Services policy will be updated from August 30, per Google, which specifies that it will start enforcing the new policy from September 6 —… Source link

June 30 (Reuters) – Google will clamp down on financial fraud on its platform in Britain, saying on Wednesday that all financial services will need to be verified by the regulator before they can advertise. Britain’s financial watchdog issued 1,200 consumer warnings last year about scams advertised via social media platforms by fake companies, double the number in 2019. read more Google, which is part of U.S. tech giant Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), said in a blog post it will begin enforcing the… Source link