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Old 04-16-2015, 10:00 AM  
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Some of the biggest scams (in the UK) are making Google money;
Google searches and public-service scams | Money | The Guardian

Google was busted for "selling drugs" online a few years back.
After a friend was taken by a scam online when they were looking to get a new birth cert sent to them. I checked the search term they used and saw the site they used was paying for the listing..

After contacting google about it and a few email exchanges they did nothing the ad stayed live, the host killed the site (and others) after 2 day apologizing for the delay in action.

This was not the first or the last time I've contacted google to have action taken about phishing etc sites using paid search listing.. To date google has yet to stop 1 offending ad yet 100% of the sites have been turned off by ICANN, Host etc..
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