Just this morning, I clicked for the first time on the small 'Ads by Google' link above a picture advertisement, and gave Google a piece of my mind on it. It st

Just this morning, I clicked for the first time on the small 'Ads by Google' link above a picture advertisement, and gave Google a piece of my mind on it. It started by the pic being of battered and shot young men ("beat up your friends"). Around here, they're showing ads by those scammers who promise free phone games or whatever to the young and naive, who then find themselves enrolled in a paid weekly subscription, charged to the phone account. Someone made them put a small cryptic price-tag on the pics, but still ... This kind of scam is also all over the free (and not only) newspapers. The ad-carriers smell the money and do it, but the real fault is with the telecom operators, who are allowed to act as currency issuers, and get a nice fat cut. P.S. My last line to Google, about the scammers, was "Cut them off. The stench clings." That goes triple for the telecom operators. They get the money now, and the guys in charge get their bonuses. Their name being mud doesn't seem to get to the bottom line, but it will. P.P.S. The carrier with a clear 'no scams, no money transfers' policy will get my kids phones in a couple of years, and possibly the rest of the family. Companies would probably also appreciate it. Rub two brain cells together, marketing guys.