Can anyone report these fake listings? https://maps.app.goo.gl/d9g3vpoKEm7PpcGH7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy
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Hi @Alex928
How do you know that this is a fake business?
This is a verified business listing with Google, so Google may not accept your edit request.
Hi @Alex928 , @Martinss2 , what I really find interesting is the series of post and PM I received, from different account, about this business.
And previously the same chain of activities was reported by other accounts.
This sounds quite weird, isn’t it?
Most of the businesses in that chain were removed already, in most of the case because they didn’t had a physical location, and in a few times because the name was stuffed of SEO text.
I reported them also for fake reviews, because most of them has only five stras reviews coming from users who only wrote a review (to them) in Google Maps.
But many of them have a clear visible storefront, so they have the right to stay in Google Maps, if they just fix their name, while others can easily change the activity to a Service area to be allowed to stay in Maps too.
We may like or not like them, but we have to follow the rules, provided both from Google Maps and the Local Laws and regulations.
As I always do, I will escalate to the team the businesses that are violating the rules, but on the meantime I am asking you both for an explanation about multiple reports from multiple accounts writing simultaneously. This sounds like a violation of the rules too
Can you kindly explain?
If you see this business profile, the address is not a complete address. There is no unit number. It is in the middle of the street. There is no business location. Also the business name is not real, it’s just for SEO purpose.
Yes you’re right. Some of them have store front and just stuffing keywords in the title. But this one there is no storefront and it’s coming back live again with a fake address.
I actually had 2 accounts(Kenny was the other one), but this is the only account I use right now. I made a post and PM you earlier for few times about these listings with the other account. And that account was closed and the post was deleted few days ago( I’m not sure what reason, I guess I am only allowed to have 1 account).
As you said about other multiple accounts, I am not sure about them.
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