New reports finds scammers are ramping up efforts to trick business owners into paying for help with free Google Business Profile listings.
If anyone calls you about your listing – telling you it “needs to be verified,” “has been flagged for review,” or “may be suspended” and promises to help you for a fee, it’s a scam.
Google Business Profiles are free, but that hasn’t stopped scammers from trying to profit from them for years.
More than 2,000 Google Business Profile scams were reported every month in 2023, for a total of more than 17,000.
What should you do?
---> Hang up!
If you receive an unwanted call from someone who claims to be Google or working with Google, feel free to hang up at any time. Do not press any key even if the voice recording prompts you to in order to speak with a live person or to be taken off the call list. Pressing a key may lead to more unwanted calls.
Google is aware of these robocalls and filed several lawsuits.
Unfortunately, there are too many unscrupulous individuals and companies who make fraudulent and misleading calls.
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