Phishing bait: Scamsters hijack search engine’s business listings
By
Biju Kumar
How do fake customer care numbers, which misdirect a person to cyber scamsters, figure on the first page of a search engine? Cyber experts in Gujarat and Rajasthan explain that most scamsters manipulate the search engine’s business listings, bid for digital advertisements displaying fake numbers, place phishing links in the comment section of websites like Quora or business ratings trap customers into calling phoney customer care numbers.