USNMix Report: Google took
the big step,
banned more than 3 lakh accounts.
banned more than 3 lakh accounts.
Google last year removed
more than 3 lakh fake business accounts from its map service (Google Maps).
According to the company's blog these fake accounts are likely to be cheated by
customers. Google said that many times these businessmen do listing fraud
locally to make profit by cheating. Google offers services for connecting
people to business, contact formula and way to reach them etc.
Took money for free service
too
Product Manager of Google
Maps Ethan Russell recently said in a blog that they take money from the
fraudulent merchants for those services which are actually free. They call
themselves fraudsters by calling them real businessmen. He said that Google
uses such technology to prevent the misuse of its platform to a great extent.
85 percent of fake accounts
were removed
Russell said, "Last
year, we removed more than 3 million fake business accounts. These accounted
for more than 90 percent of the business accounts which no customer could open.
In this entire process, nearly 85 percent of fake accounts were removed by our
internal system.
Customers reported over two
and a half million fake accounts. The company removed more than 1.5 million
fake accounts which were 50 percent higher than the 2017. Russell said that the
company is working on removing such fake accounts and working on new and better
methods.
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