Wednesday, June 03, 2009

File a Complaint with Google Against Bait and Switch Websites

Per this link, Google suggests doing the following:

Reporting a sponsored link

If the site in question appeared as a sponsored link on the Google search results page, please report the site at https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/request.py?display=form&contact_type=tiaff. Search results display on the left side of our results page; sponsored links appear on the right and in the colored box at the top.

Additional steps you can take

Regardless of where this site appeared, you can take action by alerting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which handles complaints about deceptive or unfair business practices. To file a complaint, visit https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01, call 1-877-FTC-HELP, or write to:

Federal Trade Commission
CRC-240
Washington, D.C. 20580

You may also consider filing a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

If your complaint is against a company in a country other than the United States, you can file it at http://www.econsumer.gov/

We appreciate your diligence in reporting your experience and believe it will provide a better experience for everyone. In addition to reporting rogue sites to us, you can help your fellow users by posting a warning about suspicious sites using the Google brand in the Web Search Help Forum. We rely on users to exercise good judgment and educate each other about internet fraud due to the sheer number of scam sites and the number of internet users falling prey to fraud.

 

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