I wanted to grab bag of hair bender today and typed in stumptown in the old Google search bar. The number one paid placement was to a site stumptowncoffeez (real stumptown was number 2 on list) Bags were listed on sale at $5 and change…went to go process purchase with PayPal (just used with another vendor) and was redirected to a fake PayPal site looking for me to re-enter my credit card info. How this gets by Google? Well, we know they have no ethics and have turned the kingdom over to ai, but holy hell. Be aware and be safe out there you all.
by HourAd5987
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yea, google is old and has dementia, it can no longer tell apart real and fake sites and just push fake sites to people.
Thanks for the heads up! These ’extra letter’ URL scams are getting so sophisticated.
Try a different search engine like duckduckgo. Did not get the fake sure using this. 👍🏻
I don’t understand how with AI tools Google isn’t able to more effectively use automated tools to identify clearly fake / scam sites from gaming the paid search results.
I never click the sponsored results.
might wanna let stumptown know
Always click the three dots on these fake ads and report them. I assume (wrongly, I’m sure) that eventually they’ll clamp down on them
Lol you never click on the sponsored results on google. This is nothing new.
Sponsored = Paid for
Sponsored does NOT = Legitimate
And great looking out, OP