Google and Facebook join forces to take down fake tech support scammers

[Jack]

Content source

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/05/14/google-and-facebook-join-forces-to-take-down-fake-tech-support-scammers/

Web giants Google and Facebook have announced that they recently took down 4,000 suspicious advertiser accounts linked to more than 2,400 tech support websites.

The move to crack down on tech support scams comes with the announcement that Google and Facebook have joined forces, along with with AOL, Twitter and Yahoo, to raise awareness of malicious advertising.

The coalition's new website, TrustInAds.org, offers tools to report bad ads to the coalition member companies, and its associated trend report offers an interesting look inside Google and Facebook's investigation of the crooks behind phony tech support ads.

Read more: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/201...rces-to-take-down-fake-tech-support-scammers/

 

[CapeBuffalo]

Great news, i've seen a few youtube video where IT techs troll them, it sad to many people browse the net and need help and these people exploit that, while good site like this exist

 

[nsm0220]

Web giants Google and Facebook have announced that they recently took down 4,000 suspicious advertiser accounts linked to more than 2,400 tech support websites.

The move to crack down on tech support scams comes with the announcement that Google and Facebook have joined forces, along with with AOL, Twitter and Yahoo, to raise awareness of malicious advertising.

The coalition's new website, TrustInAds.org, offers tools to report bad ads to the coalition member companies, and its associated trend report offers an interesting look inside Google and Facebook's investigation of the crooks behind phony tech support ads.

Read more: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/201...rces-to-take-down-fake-tech-support-scammers/

about time

 

[Dima007]

Thanks Jack

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

Thanks for sharing this, Jack. It's good news, for a change, when internet giants like Google & Facebook move in a direction of cooperation to protect their users, even if they're motivated by their own self preservation. It's a refreshing break to have a "Big Brother" whom sticks up for you rather than a brother who beats you up!

 

[Viking]

a step in the right direction!