Robocalls have become an unfortunately common part of daily life in America. Everyone knows how it works: A phone number, often somewhat similar to your own, calls you and offers some kind of health insurance or student loan scam.
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Google cracked down on 2.3 billion bad ads last year
Google published its yearly look at “bad ads” on Thursday, detailing how the company fought bad advertising practices in 2018.
In total, the search giant took down 2.3 billion ads that violated its advertising policies last year. That’s more than 6 million bad ads removed every day.
This number is down from the previous year when Google reported it eliminated 3.2 billion ads from its network.
Google also terminated its relationship with nearly one million bad advertiser accounts and almost 734,000 publishers and app developers — close to double the amount from 2017. The company also removed ads from nearly 28 million webpages and 1.5 million apps. Read more…
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Ja Rule wants to throw another music festival
Ja Rule seems unfazed by al the negative publicity surrounding the epic failed Fyre Fest endeavor. Not only has he denied all liability, but he says he is in the process of planning another festival. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Scams, Fyre…
View More Ja Rule wants to throw another music festivalGoogle Chrome will warn you before you fall for a phone subscription scam
Found yourself subscribed to a shady ringtone service? Even though it’s 2018? Google Chrome will soon stop you from falling into that trap.
In an upcoming version of Chrome, the browser will throw up a warning page when it suspects users could be unw…
Chrome adds new security features to stop mobile subscription scams
Google today announced that Chrome will soon get a new feature that aims to stop mobile subscription scams. Those are the kind of sites that ask you for your phone number and that then, unbeknownst to you, sign you up for a mobile subscription that’s billed through your carrier. Starting with the launch of Chrome […]
View More Chrome adds new security features to stop mobile subscription scamsEven walking Bitconnect meme Carlos Matos is now calling bitcoin a scam
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You know you’re in trouble when you’ve lost Carlos Matos.
The walking meme made famous by his unbridled enthusiasm for Bitconnect, a cryptocurrency project strongly resembling a Ponzi scheme that shut down its lending and exchange platform in January, is now here to offer some measured words of caution. Namely, stay the hell away from bitcoin.
“Bitcoin Is A Scam,” he tweeted on October 26. “Sell Everything It’s NEVER Going Back Up”
Bitcoin Is A Scam. Sell Everything It’s NEVER Going Back Up
— Carlos Matos (@CarlosMatos80) October 26, 2018
Matos, of course, is best known for promoting a likely scam himself. He launched into meme infamy in October of 2017 after a video of him singing Bitconnect’s praises went viral. Read more…
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View More Even walking Bitconnect meme Carlos Matos is now calling bitcoin a scamSneaky subscriptions are plaguing the App Store
Subscriptions have turned into a booming business for app developers, accounting for $10.6 billion in consumer spend on the App Store in 2017, and poised to grow to $75.7 billion by 2022. But alongside this healthy growth, a number of scammers are now taking advantage of subscriptions in order to trick users into signing up […]
View More Sneaky subscriptions are plaguing the App StoreGoogle restricts tech support ads, thanks to how bad many of them are
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Tech support scams are a problem on the internet, and Google is trying to stop people from getting tangled in them through their ads.
It’s decided to restrict ads by third-party technical support providers, as well as making these businesses verify themselves.
“As the fraudulent activity takes place off our platform, it’s increasingly difficult to separate the bad actors from the legitimate providers,” reads a post by Google’s director of global product policy, David Graff, on Friday.
“That’s why in the coming months, we will roll out a verification program to ensure that only legitimate providers of third-party tech support can use our platform to reach consumers.” Read more…
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View More Google restricts tech support ads, thanks to how bad many of them areThe best scammers of 2018, ranked
Summer 2018’s brightest star has been the scammer.
Grifters of all sorts have been in the headlines this year, from thieves to embezzlers to animals impersonating other animals. What’s bringing on all this Big Scam Energy? We’re not sure, but it’s ma…
Facebook hit with defamation lawsuit over fake ads
In an interesting twist, Facebook is being sued in the UK for defamation by consumer advice personality, Martin Lewis, who says his face and name have been repeatedly used on fake adverts distributed on the social media giant’s platform. Lewis, who founded the popular MoneySavingExpert.com tips website, says Facebook has failed to stop the fake ads […]
View More Facebook hit with defamation lawsuit over fake adsTwitter is suspending some users who solicit crypto
Twitter is taking some steps to combat cryptocurrency scammers on its platform. But these are best classified as ‘baby steps’ at this point. Read More
Monumentally stupid tweet blows up in blockchain company’s face
The blockchain can’t solve for stupid.
That painful truth hit the internet-of-things blockchain project Waltonchain hard today, with one Twitter huge fuck up leading to the erasure of tens of millions of dollars in the market cap of its associa…