Decentralized finance Scams The Phishing Ads
As long as we are still in the crypto space there will be those bad acts who are trying to take advantage to defraud others with their digital assets, there is a general awareness now in the Defi sector of bad acts making money off the industry through the worlds largest search engine.
How is this done? Well these bad acts makes a replica of the actual sites ads which a user clicks it redirects them to a scam site instead. A crypto analyst was giving out these caution during a session on “X” saying that There's a new crypto scam on google
Scammers will buy an ad for a proper crypto website on google, with the proper URLThen when users click on it they get sent to an ad network (kochava.com) to track the click, but that network redirects to a scam site instead.
It has been reported that these ads are paid and the search engine giant is making a huge money of it, tho of recent it seems that the issue has been rectified now how long with this continue?
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