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Re:GrubHub is buying up thousands of restaurant web addresses by gumby on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:14PM (#20309208)
This is a variant on the scam of making a local locksmith or tow link, SEOing it to the top of of Google's results, and then charging a fee and outsourcing the work. The web was supposed to be a disintermediating force but it's just as much been an opportunity for gratuitous toll-collectors.

Google appears to profit from this so apparently makes no effort to prevent this. It's been going on for years: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-lock...

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