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What's ironically is that the ads were paid with scam money, so it's like Google is in fact, part of the 'gang'... Crazy world! Most part of scams register names that looks like something legit, but, of course, no one seems to care who's buying what they're buying when registering domain names.

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Google should commit to donating all funds received from ads that are later detected as scams to charity.

That implies that Google has a right to money it makes from scams. Next up: Driver of getaway car gets to keep his share from robbery, will donate $10 to security guards widow.

No, it's separate. They donate whatever they received, without impact on their other obligations, like refunding victims or so.

> like refunding victims or so.

So how much do you pay for your ability to click on phishing links? Is it $0? Guess Google doesn't have to refund you anything and gets to keep all that money the scammers paid it!

In the case described in the article of government impersonation, I'd prefer a 10x fine.

Shouldn't companies actively aiding fraud to the the tune of, I expect, $Billions have their executives go to jail and the company garnished of at least some percentage points of global revenue?

Taking money to put fraudulent ads above legitimate results seems like it's not doing the minimum due diligence to skirt around a willful negligence accusation.

Not good enough. They still make money off of the ads the affected agencies have to push out to inform users about the fraud problem.

Few things are more profitable than selling both the poison and the cure.

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