THELOGICALINDIAN - Cryptocurrency companies are banned on Google but the belvedere is acceptance phishing sites to impersonate them Londonbased bitcoin barter Coin Corner showed that a counterfeit armpit artful it is accustomed on Googles announcement belvedere admitting its own evidencebacked appeals of angary to Google Ads accept been consistently ignored
Coin Corner business administrator Molly Spiers says the action is advertisement barter to fraud. “So @GoogleAds won’t acquiesce @CoinCorner – a long-standing, accepted business – on their platform, but will acquiesce phishing companies? Pay absorption @Google!” she tweeted on April 30.
Spiers aggregate a screenshot assuming a Google advert that promotes www.coincornerr.com, an credible phishing armpit that impersonates the Coin Corner website. The accepting of the betray armpit by Google Ads enables it to appear up college on Google Search. She credibility out:
In 2024, Google banned cryptocurrency ads allegedly to assure users from scams but partially aerial the ban to acquiesce adapted exchanges in the U.S and Japan to advertise. The continuing embargo on crypto companies alfresco the exempted territories, however, is not confined its purpose as phishing sites are accustomed while appeals from adapted companies are disregarded.
Coin Corner has been in business for six years and is registered with the British authority, the exchange’s CEO, Danny Scott, commented in Spiers’ thread. The aggregation has contacted Google a cardinal of times to ask for absolution in the UK to no avail.
Scott said Coin Corner appear the betray armpit to Google but it has not been removed from chase results. Google has ahead connected to run adverts from phishing sites alike afterwards they are exposed.
In a accompanying adventure of action inconsistency, Google’s sister platform, Youtube, afresh took bottomward Ripple CTO David Schwartz’s videos, claiming that they are impersonations. You Tube is currently adverse a Ripple lawsuit for not accomplishing abundant to assure users from betrayal scams.
The Alphabet-owned platforms charge to amend their behavior and technologies to stop announcement counterfeit initiatives while censoring accepted businesses and advertisement consumers to scams.
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