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clicking on these links is something dangerous
Yes, but I know what I'm doing.
Hi Duelbits, I just want to bring up something to you when I've tried to search for your Twitter account through Google. This ad has appeared and it seems a different domain extension.
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This ad clearly has nothing to do with the official Duelbits or Stake site. As far as I know, Google allows to advertise gambling sites, but there are a lot of restrictions on countries, and it is only allowed to those advertisers who have passed the appropriate certification. You can see from your screenshots that the advertiser uses a pre-landing page, and I'm more than sure that this is done to bypass the restrictions of Google Ads. So it looks more like a phishing site, or someone is just trying to promote its referral link this way. In any case, I would advise you to be extremely careful before clicking on suspicious links because your curiosity might be the reason that your crypto and data can one day be stolen due to phishing.
Don't worry, I'm careful and that's why I'm just reaching it out to duelbits that there's someone that uses their name wrongly. I've made other threads about these phishing links to make everyone aware of it.
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This should not be a big deal. Obviously these guys are doing Google CPA for the keyword "VISIT DUELBIT" or only "DUELBIT".
It seems they are a review website and spending their money to get affiliate signup and receive commission.
Edit: After looking closely to everything on the site, I am sure they are only promoting Stake.
But the thing is, they're using Duelbits name wrongly and they're promoting other websites and those domains are also different. It could be harmful for someone who knows Duelbits but searches it on through google and may land into this false advertised website.
It seems like a referral/affiliate page because upon checking below there are also some other casinos too. So again, keeping up with my curiosity, I clicked "VISIT DUELBIT" and the spelling is lacking of "s" for the correct one.
Google always shows the sponsored site at the top of the search result. Seems like duelbits.cc is an referrals making website. Perhaps, the website owner has done some mistakes on the backlink of 'VISIT DUELBIT' and 'VISIT DUELBITS' word. As a result it is forwarding everyone to the mirror site of Stake. Duelbits team has nothing to do to stop them.
Yeah, they're always like that and have never filtered these websites that seems suspicious and harmful. They might have do nothing to stop them but they can make everyone aware of them.
Hi Duelbits, I just want to bring up something to you when I've tried to search for your Twitter account through Google. This ad has appeared and it seems a different domain extension.
Thats really psych man! People are crazy to scam others by investing lot of money and efforts on the scams.
I can't imagine the efforts those guys might have taken for:
1. Purchasing the domain
2. Hosting plans for the redirected website
3. Creating Google Adsense
4. Paying huge sum of money for running those HIGH CPC Google Ads!
I am literally thinking one thing right now; why deceive someone with so much hard work if they can actually create something of their own like a blog, youtube channel, or something else and go through above STEPS 1- 5 and earn themselves respects?
Thanks for sharing the info, hope Duelbits will take action soon.
Yeah, that's it. I've shared it because no one would have that type of effort and will use others casinos name if he's too good and don't have any intention at all. If it's just something all about affiliate marketing, he should do better and would just redirect to the correct websites + his referral link but that's not what it shows.
