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mrguyorama • yesterday at 8:32 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Google is the entire problem here. Pay them money and your literal scam site can sit above the real site in the search results.

Why are they allowed to direct you to literal scams? Why are they allowed to profit off of literal scams?

This affects the company I work for, who gets called every single day with customer complaints from people who clicked the scam link from a search ad when looking for our site.

Our site has existed for over a decade. There's no justifiable reason that a company who's brand is known by every single grocer or merchant to somehow show up under a literal fly by night scam company pretending to have the same name. It's unacceptable.

My sister got scammed by this exact mechanism just last week.