By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026This is a gift to fraudsters. I had my own run-in with it in 2023, when I was tricked by a Google ad into ordering dinner from my local Thai place using a scam site that had cloned the restaurant's menu. 29/ 2522
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026The scammers marked up the price by 15%, then passed the order on to the restaurant, pocketing the vig: pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/p... 30/pluralistic.netPluralistic: This is your brain on fraud apologetics (24 Feb 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1402
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026This scammer - based out of a UC Berkeley dorm-room - had copied *hundreds* of restaurant websites, then bought Google ads for the restaurants' names, ensuring that searchers would see the scam result *before* the real one. 31/ 1515
