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Reputation, Scams & Phishing / Re: [Scam] Mllxero.io (with L)
« on: Today at 08:45:18 PM »
Without reading again with some focus, I thought Mlxero is really the same as Mixero. Indeed, this is an old strategy used again and again to deceive mostly people who have not been exposed to such a trick. In fact, I was victimized by the same thing years before cryptocurrency came into existence when someone copied a buyer's Facebook account with almost the same name and without me looking at it letter by letter I lost around $200 which is already big here in my country. Now, with cryptocurrency and with scammers in abundance, these evil people are using all ways and means to fool people of their hard-earned money. I am happy to see this post so we can forewarn people and they can be aware of this scam. Sadly, Google can easily be fooled by these fake sites...maybe as long they are paying then anything goes.
The problem is precisely what you said at the end of your post. Google does not check the legitimacy of anything as long as it charges for advertising. When something like this happens, it can take many days. I seem to remember that in this case Google took 10 days to do something. How many people could have been scammed during that time period?. Who is responsible?. If Google had to refund money to every person scammed with phishing related ads, I'm sure they would check things twice before charging and showing the ads.