Need help with a spammer in town

Hello.
Need help with a spammer.
Somehow he became the owner of the POIs of the yacht clubs and gave them his details. Changed names to spam.

POIs:
https://goo.gl/maps/iieYw1YnA2WJfMW18
https://goo.gl/maps/2LiZJiVJhA5byg1v7

https://goo.gl/maps/YWq7fxNT2E5Hi4359

https://goo.gl/maps/Fbx6bpV8rm9GL3527

He also created and immediately became the owner of several new ones:

https://goo.gl/maps/22JQ6YihZAsELmCE6
https://goo.gl/maps/V342khmm4tnMmTos7

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Hi @Odessa_Kos

Such data issues are normally better dealt with in the Maps support forum.

Hit the Community tap at the top and make a post.

But you might also be lucky that a Google Moderator like @DeniGu will take it from here.

Please also see How to identify and report fraud on Google Maps and
You can now report entire profiles for abuse on Google Maps.

Cheers
Morten

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Hi @MortenCopenhagen

Thanks for the advice. I think that the problem is more serious than just contacting the Maps support forum. Spammers somehow manage to create a POI and immediately become the owner.
I can mark them as spam, but I don’t know what to do with real POIs that have been stolen. And since these cases happen all the time, I decided to write about it here.

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@Odessa_Kos

There is also the possibility to involve the Google My Business support, but I hope @DeniGu or one of her colleagues will step in and help you with this.

All the best

Morten

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Hi @Odessa_Kos ,

Thank you for flagging what you’ve found! I’ll forward the details to our relevant team to investigate.

Thank you for the tag, @MortenCopenhagen ! :blush:

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Hi @DeniGu ,

Added 2 more POIs to the first message, which were stolen again.

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Hi @Odessa_Kos ,

Thanks for letting me know about the additions! I’ll share them with the team.

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Hi again, @Odessa_Kos !

The team confirmed the correct details of the places you listed in your post and took actions to remove any non-existent and fraudulent locations. Thank you once again for reporting what you found!