Google Maps eliminates more than 10,000 fraudulent ads that supplant legitimate companies

Google has eliminated more than 10,000 profiles and illegitimate ads of false companies in its Google Maps service and has sued the alleged scammers behind these fraud.

The technological firm has taken mediated against a fraudulent action organized around its maps service, which uncovered the sale of false commercial profiles. The research carried out revealed from supplantations of legitimate companies to the use of ‘hackeadas’ accounts.

The trigger was the alert that a company in Texas (United States), which denounced that a locksmith without a license was made by them on Google Maps. This triggered an investigation that led Google to eliminate more than 10,000 false profiles, as reported by CBS News and collects Europa Press.

Google identified that these scams concentrated in service that people urgently needed or stressful, and that a network of people from all over the world had participated in it, not only from the United States, who used social networks to expand their scope.

Google’s demand, presented on Wednesday, also includes the publication of positive false reviews that were used to supplant those that had negative scores and comments. These are information that consumers use to make decisions about the services they hire or the products they consume.

The false listings of companies are prohibited in Google Maps. The company ensures that it uses both automated and human reviewers to identify them