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Crowd-sourcing mischief on Google Maps leads customers astray
Google Places let any passer-by flag a business as permanently closed with no verification, so spammers or rivals could shutter a shop's listing. The post walks through the New York Times report, a Help forum thread showing Google's shrugged-off first reply, and Google's promise of a fix, then sketches how organised abuse could target a chain.
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- Researcher
- Lisa Vaas
- Published by
- Naked Security
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