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> it's just a run-of-the-mill scammer scamming and using google's name A scammer selling a Google service for which their is no affiliate program? I wouldn't
by powertower 15y ago
> it's just a run-of-the-mill scammer scamming and using google's name
A scammer selling a Google service for which their is no affiliate program?
I wouldn't file this one away due to having a Google crawler on an IP address that’s on the same B block (that's like having the same car brand, not the same make/model)... An IP address that's not even related to the original investigation, but to some anecdote at the very end of the story.
We need more info about the service being sold, and how it's being sold, who's the billing party, etc.
- blhack 15y agoThe scammer invented their own referral program by charging the businesses for a website. The only real tie to google here is that some person on a telephone used google's name.
- alexmuller 15y agoFrom the PDF transcript, page nine: Caller: No, it’s absolutely free, free of charge. Ok, there’s a small fee for hosting of Ksh. 200 per month. This seems like an incredibly simple scam, and it looks like blhack's nailed it. There is nothing connecting this to Google apart from that one IP address. I could phone up half a dozen companies and claim to be from Google, too. Hell, I get phone calls from "Windows Security Centre" every few weeks telling me to do something to my non-existant XP install.