Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by edent on Sunday November 25, 2018 @02:49PM (#18528611)

I've tried to report this map spam before - details at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/04/hundreds-of-thousands-of-sp...

Happy to be contacted if you'd like more information.

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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by jpatokal on Monday November 26, 2018 @12:18AM (#18531249)

Your blog post appears to be conflating Google Maps with MyMaps. MyMaps lets people create & publish their own maps with random POIs: for example, here's a map of nice wineries around Melbourne.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mtgpe7JU9OtHUUdvG_A6Uq0eTp...

However, these do not show up in the "main" Google Maps, and adding spam to them isn't any more effective than adding spam to a random website.

Disclaimer: I used to work at Google Maps.

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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by edent on Monday November 26, 2018 @01:31AM (#18531558)

I mean, the url for these spam entries starts "Google.com/maps" so I think it is pretty reasonable to call this Google Maps spam.

I don't remember how I found those specific ones, but using Google Maps for Android finds some pretty similar entries. Perhaps you could pass that on to your old team?

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