Place spam

Seems to be a lot of spamming of new Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Ireland recently. Common attributes attributes are they link to a non-Irish phone number & website (Chrome reports their security certificate’s expired too). Cursory search reveals dozens & in all instances these are places which have already been added (& point to the correct operators website & phone).

Any idea how best to report? Don’t want post specifics on phone, website here :slightly_smiling_face:

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If I understand you correctly @ThomasMcG duplicates of real places are being added with incorrect phone number and website? Can you share a Maps link to one or a few of them?

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Here’s 3 of the recently added places in Wexford town.

https://goo.gl/maps/Nb7nFajJRQPCwugE7 (Abbey St)

https://goo.gl/maps/v7JvMNb6gnfZSFuk6 (High St)

https://goo.gl/maps/fpyoyKrmyDTVWNPu7 (Crescent Quay)

Now, here’s the “original” places in Wexford town.

[Google Maps (Abbey](Google Maps (Abbey) St)

[Google Maps (High](Google Maps (High) St)

[Google Maps (Crescent](Google Maps (Crescent) Quay)

As you can see the recently added places have no photos, incorrect kW information, international phone number, problematic website.

That’s weird indeed @ThomasMcG . What you can do yourself is to select them one by one and Suggest an edit > Remove this place > Spam.

In the meanwhile, I will try to escalate this in order to have the Googlers look into it.

Thanks for pointing this out!

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Hi @ThomasMcG , hi @JanVanHaver ,

Thanks for flagging!

I’d like to let you know, that we are looking into this.

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It’s been 14 months and there it doesn’t appear that anything’s been done. I mean, of the 3 sites originally linked, one was merged (fine), two remain as is with their phone numbers for a service in France (Easytrip) who are not the operator of these charge points. Numerous “Flag as Spam” submissions appear to all have been rejected.

To repeat, this isn’t a local issue, it’s an island wide one, and I fail to see any valid reason for a French operator to have duplicate listings & an international phone number, e.g.

Limerick https://goo.gl/maps/hFSNXuAa1MfPjnQ26

Donegal https://goo.gl/maps/8caAfiYZibV7Usba8

Kerry https://goo.gl/maps/Vj7NNvHAJyv8X8Z79

Antrim https://goo.gl/maps/HwBy9M3MHDEvfKz66