Spamming attack on Myanmar Hotels

[ZawLinnHtet]

Dear Google Local Guides from Myanmar and around the world,

Since several weeks ago, we started noticing a new spamming action on Google Maps. Official business websites of the famous hotels are being replaced with [REDACTED] especially in the tourist attraction cities like Yangon, Mandalay and Bagan. When edits become published, the Google Maps users are redirected to another unsafe booking website (see screenshot below) or shown "Page not found" error instead of seeing the official website of the hotel. We still don't have any idea who is behind this. But, certainly, they are doing for their own profit.

 [REDACTED]

Example Hotels which were spammed

(Picture Credit: Screenshots are supported by @MyoThantZ)

Therefore, please look carefully before you vote for edited websites or before you click on the website links of Myanmar hotels on Google Maps. We truly don't have any technical expertise to prevent or counteract this spamming attack. We would also like to ask for help from Google Moderators and other local guides to stop this.

Best,

Zaw Linn Htet

Myanmar

[MariaBi · Accepted solution]

Hi @ZawLinnHtet,

Thanks for reaching out. I have edited your post to remove the personal information as we respect everyone's privacy. Please see also this post to learn more about reporting spam correctly on Connect.

• As a reminder, f you find a review or photo that you think violates our policies, you can use the 'flag/report as inappropriate' icon next to the contribution. A team of specialists will then check if it violates any of our policies (https://goo.gl/dsVNTC & https://goo.gl/G87xzJ) and will take appropriate action. The content review sometimes takes time as the team is careful to only remove content that violates policy. Please note that we'll never be able to share the specialists' decision as we respect everyone's privacy.

We are going to contact you shortly via private message with further instructions.

Many thanks!

[KoSet]

Dear Mod, 

    Thanks for your feedback.

[MgTT]

MariaBi wrote:

Hi @ZawLinnH,

Thanks for reaching out. I have edited your post to remove the personal information as we respect everyone's privacy. Please see also this post to learn more about reporting spam correctly on Connect.

• As a reminder, f you find a review or photo that you think violates our policies, you can use the 'flag/report as inappropriate' icon next to the contribution. A team of specialists will then check if it violates any of our policies (https://goo.gl/dsVNTC & https://goo.gl/G87xzJ) and will take appropriate action. The content review sometimes takes time as the team is careful to only remove content that violates policy. Please note that we'll never be able to share the specialists' decision as we respect everyone's privacy.

We are going to contact you shortly via private message with further instructions.

Many thanks!

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Dear MariaBi,

Pls help us. We are facing the Unacceptable Vulgar Attack.

One Muslim man named himself as [REDACTED] has been replacing the Islamic mosques in Buddhists sacred landmarks like Sule Pagoda, Shwedagon Pagoda and some famous pagodas on Google Map. (Check the link 👇🏾) 
Those all places have changed into mosques on the map and Google approved that. Some Myanmar developers are trying to recorrect the places, but still hard to change. 
Can't confirm that man is from which country and why he did that, and it's believed that he started that attack last week. Please share and inform whom (any experts in tech) to recorrect the Myanmar valuable monuments and landmarks in Google Map.
[REDACTED]

Please help us.

Tun Tun

from Myanmat

[MariaBi]

Thanks for reaching out @MgTT.

I have edited your post to remove the personal information as we respect everyone's privacy. Please see also this post to learn more about reporting spam correctly on Connect.

• As a reminder, if you find a review or photo that you think violates our policies, you can use the 'flag/report as inappropriate' icon next to the contribution. A team of specialists will then check if it violates any of our policies (https://goo.gl/dsVNTC & https://goo.gl/G87xzJ) and will take appropriate action. The content review sometimes takes time as the team is careful to only remove content that violates policy. Please note that we'll never be able to share the specialists' decision as we respect everyone's privacy.

Many thanks,

Maria

[MgTT]

Thanks MariaBi