Tag Archives: Fraudulent

Google Sues Over Fraudulent DMCA Takedown Requests

Google has filed a lawsuit against two men who allegedly used Google’s DMCA process “aimed at removing hundreds of thousands of their competitors’ website URLs from Google Search results,” the lawsuit writes (PDF here). The lawsuit says the “Defendants have weaponized copyright law’s notice-and-takedown process and used it not for its intended purpose of expeditiously […]

Beware Of Fraudulent Ownership Requests From Google Business Profiles

I am sure many of you have received one or two (or more) requests from Google Business Profiles saying the owner is requested access to maintain your business. I just delete them but I am hearing from Local SEOs that this is becoming more and more of an issue. Ben Fisher said in the Local […]

Most Web3 Advertising and marketing is Faux and Fraudulent. Here’s What Must Change.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Around October 2021, my attention got caught by what was happening in the NFT space. If you were there, you certainly felt intrigued at how “pictures of animals” were being sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. While my first good reaction was skepticism at the general […]

Google Maps 2021 Spam Efforts Embrace 100 Million Fraudulent & Abusive Blocks

Google announced its 2021 Google Maps and Google Business Profile spam fighting efforts, like it did for the 2020 year. Google said it blocked more than 100 million Business Profile edits and protected over 100 thousand businesses from suspicious activity and abuse attempts. Google has been trying hard to portray a better image for its […]