[WARNING] Bustabit phising site! DON'T google "bustabit" !!! - page 2.

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Quote from: Joel_Jantsen on December 17, 2020, 04:30:13 PM

How? My Adbloker doesn't block any phishing websites. Is there any specific add blocked you use that stops users from accessing shady url's?

The first (organic) result is legitimate, it's just people buy ads to promote malware/phishing/etc and google puts the ad results above the organic results. By using an adblocker, it removes the ads and leaves only the organic results which are legitimate.

So yeah, install an adblocker and encourage non-tech family/friends to do so too. The amount of actively harmful ads google runs is obscene. And google takes so long to take any action (days or weeks), that it's often more practical to encourage people to click the phishing links to blow their advertising budget.

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Quote from: acquafredda on December 17, 2020, 04:38:05 AM

Do yourself a favour and install an adblocker. Google is getting pretty bad at this lately! Also, do not use google for your searches but go fro duckduckgo, startpage and other privacy centric search engines.

Why does ad-blocker have anything to do with phishing websites? Not like it's going to block your access to the phishing site. Being privacy-centric and scam free are two different things.

Quote from: NotATether on December 17, 2020, 06:35:18 AM

Shouldn't it be obvious to anyone looking to gamble there not to go to a site called "bastabit"? Seriously, you have to be really light-headed to miss that typo because you can even see it on your phone's top bar, it's not like they're using obfuscated punycode.

Why checks typos of the links before opening them? Especially when it comes as the very first search result on something as reputed as Google? Anyone can these mistakes and they're very easy to miss.

Quote from: NotATether on December 17, 2020, 06:35:18 AM

Also an adblocker will trivially solve this problem, you can even get Adblock Plus for Google Chrome and Safari on mobile last time I checked.

How? My Adbloker doesn't block any phishing websites. Is there any specific add blocked you use that stops users from accessing shady url's?

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Quote from: Lanatsa on December 17, 2020, 02:28:47 PM

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Quote from: abel1337 on December 17, 2020, 11:18:58 AM

I hope that Google will improve its anti-phishing software so that this kind of method will not exist anymore.

They don't improve anything!
But you can just teach artificial intelligence. And if they were seriously concerned about it, they would have done it long ago. Wouldn't artificial intelligence understand that this is a fake - replacing a symbol in a domain name? Of course, he will understand - AI not look at symbols with the eyes, like a person, but checks the codes of the symbols, and this is much more reliable.

it's just that google doesn't care what will the ads will show to user even though they are a phishing website by the way as a community member if i saw something like this what could be the ways to report it?

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You can always report it so that there wont be people who get victimized with this phishing sites.

This was helpful but still it's much better that the google should avoid in on the very first place. I was curious how many days would it take before they took it off on their ads.

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Quote from: bunglor on December 17, 2020, 12:54:26 PM

Quote from: delfastTions on December 17, 2020, 12:19:09 PM

Quote from: abel1337 on December 17, 2020, 11:18:58 AM

I hope that Google will improve its anti-phishing software so that this kind of method will not exist anymore.

They don't improve anything!
But you can just teach artificial intelligence. And if they were seriously concerned about it, they would have done it long ago. Wouldn't artificial intelligence understand that this is a fake - replacing a symbol in a domain name? Of course, he will understand - AI not look at symbols with the eyes, like a person, but checks the codes of the symbols, and this is much more reliable.

it's just that google doesn't care what will the ads will show to user even though they are a phishing website by the way as a community member if i saw something like this what could be the ways to report it?

To report abuse directly from a Google Site, click Report abuse at the bottom of the page.

Source

You can always report it so that there wont be people who get victimized with this phishing sites.

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Quote from: delfastTions on December 17, 2020, 12:19:09 PM

Quote from: abel1337 on December 17, 2020, 11:18:58 AM

I hope that Google will improve its anti-phishing software so that this kind of method will not exist anymore.

They don't improve anything!
But you can just teach artificial intelligence. And if they were seriously concerned about it, they would have done it long ago. Wouldn't artificial intelligence understand that this is a fake - replacing a symbol in a domain name? Of course, he will understand - AI not look at symbols with the eyes, like a person, but checks the codes of the symbols, and this is much more reliable.

it's just that google doesn't care what will the ads will show to user even though they are a phishing website by the way as a community member if i saw something like this what could be the ways to report it?

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Quote from: goinmerry on December 16, 2020, 06:04:21 PM

Isn't it common nowadays that Google search results with a tag of an "AD" shouldn't be trusted or followed?

Not just in Bustabit but other websites also have an AD version in their search results e.g Roobet, Stake.com, Primedice

It's not that Google isn't taking down those sites but even after they shutdown a page, there will be another one, and so on. Maybe Google should not use automated tools or something for approving a site. They should look at the internal stuff of the said website before allowing it to be placed on their search ads.

For users themselves, we need to use our common sense for this.

How will google be able to filter such websites? How does google know that bastabit is a clone of bustabit? Well, since template is the same, I think they should have a tool that would search websites against phishing or at least they should implement something like Youtube has on copyright claims when they scan the videos and audios. Otherwise, people won't be able to manually check each website and decide whether this is scam or not because they can't collect people who would know every website, so, the manual check is useless.

But the overall rescue will be if people will take care of themselves and do research before doing anything. This is the real problem, people don't look at what they click, google has nothing to do with your carelessness.

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Quote from: abel1337 on December 17, 2020, 11:18:58 AM

I hope that Google will improve its anti-phishing software so that this kind of method will not exist anymore.

They don't improve anything!
But you can just teach artificial intelligence. And if they were seriously concerned about it, they would have done it long ago. Wouldn't artificial intelligence understand that this is a fake - replacing a symbol in a domain name? Of course, he will understand - AI not look at symbols with the eyes, like a person, but checks the codes of the symbols, and this is much more reliable.

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Quote from: NotATether on December 17, 2020, 06:35:18 AM

Shouldn't it be obvious to anyone looking to gamble there not to go to a site called "bastabit"? Seriously, you have to be really light-headed to miss that typo because you can even see it on your phone's top bar, it's not like they're using obfuscated punycode.

That's what I'm thinking, in this case it's pretty obvious that it's a scam attempt. What's more, you won't see this page if you have an adblocker installed - or use a browser like Brave:

Of course, you can think what you want about Brave, but especially in such cases, the Adblock is worth its weight in gold and protects especially inexperienced users from falling for such ad scams.

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Recently I searched Google and it is true that this phishing site is at the front with the word bastabit, but the writing on bustabit is clear if we are not careful then we will fall into the trap.
I think this is a good finding which reminds us that there are now a lot of scamers scattered around and therefore vigilance should be raised again to all of you.
Damn there is still a google algorithm like this, is there no feature about filters to know which ones are real and which are fake?

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D*mn, didn't really expect that it is a phishing site, I scrolled back to the image after reading the first sentence under it. Scammers is always taking advantage of the advertisement offered, I know this method exists for some time now but surely there is someone who will fall for traps like these. I hope that Google will improve its anti-phishing software so that this kind of method will not exist anymore.

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Yo.... OP, even I might have slipped up with that one.... cause it is very close to the original site. I normally type out the sites with the short Url's, but one wrong typo might cost you your coins in that account.

I tell you... these scammers are very clever and you have to double check everything ...when it comes to something where "money" is involved. I actually break a sweat when I have to sweep paper wallets, because there are so many things that can go wrong with a process like that.

In any way, you earned yourself a merit for this one. Wink

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Thanks for the warning if a person was not really careful the player might already be fooled by that website with just 1 letter difference. Me too I really don't trust the Ads of the google most of them are scams do they check it first or not?

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Thanks for this post, I hope it'll help people to be more attentive about which websites they visit. I don't trust the "Ad" results and never check them out, but some people might. Google should take scam more seriously, but it's probably hard to configure an algorhythm that would do scam checks and too expensive to hire people to do these checks. I hope someone will figure out how to train neural networks to spot such websites by checking them against websites with similar names or against the first non-advertised search results, but I guess we're not there yet.

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Quote from: NotATether on December 17, 2020, 06:35:18 AM

Shouldn't it be obvious to anyone looking to gamble there not to go to a site called "bastabit"? Seriously, you have to be really light-headed to miss that typo because you can even see it on your phone's top bar, it's not like they're using obfuscated punycode.

Also an adblocker will trivially solve this problem, you can even get Adblock Plus for Google Chrome and Safari on mobile last time I checked.

i hardly noticed it . i take a cloose look one more time on the screenies that op shared and finally found the mistake .
it was also obvious for a gambler that have already heard of this site but for new comers or to those that already heard of it before and forgot it , if they decide to comeback they will search it on google because they forgot the exact link .
i dont use bustabit but it serves me as a warning because i was lazy to bookmark the site that visit and i search them on google because of too much lazyness .

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It is proof that we should be careful when we search through Google or other search engines because the site's list is not always what we want.
I got the same thing as @janggernaut found when I search for something I want, but fortunately, I don't do anything, so I think I can avoid something worst that might happen.
It is better to search for the gambling site from here, especially if it is related to cryptocurrency.
We have many reputable gambling sites and recommend by many members here so that we can avoid scamming.
Thank you, @OP.

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The first in the search result of google (especially if its only an Ad) doesnt necessarily mean it is the legit site that you're looking for.

Those gamblers who are not taking time to check the right URL of the gambling site that they want to visit has a high chance of ending up in phishing site like this one. Its a must to bookmark the site we usually visit to become certain, well its a basic thing that we should be aware of.

Anyways this is common nowadays and even other gambling sites are not safe to these people who wants to take advantage the gamblers.

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Quote from: Ucy on December 17, 2020, 05:42:02 AM

I guess the site appeared as Ad on search results. Sometimes I wonder why proper investigation aren't done before allowing such ads on top of search results.

I think it will be important that the real site gets enough people to reports the one using its name to Google. Perhaps the site will be penalized for trying to pretend to be another.

It's the same thing when you are looking for an exchange and search it in Google . as long as google just lets the scammer use them using ads. the phishing of those people will continue I just wish Google do their job and review every ads first before they accept the ads.so ,that there are no more victims and there are also many beginners who can be fooled by that simple tricks.

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Shouldn't it be obvious to anyone looking to gamble there not to go to a site called "bastabit"? Seriously, you have to be really light-headed to miss that typo because you can even see it on your phone's top bar, it's not like they're using obfuscated punycode.

Also an adblocker will trivially solve this problem, you can even get Adblock Plus for Google Chrome and Safari on mobile last time I checked.

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I guess the site appeared as Ad on search results. Sometimes I wonder why proper investigation aren't done before allowing such ads on top of search results.

I think it will be important that the real site gets enough people to reports the one using its name to Google. Perhaps the site will be penalized for trying to pretend to be another.

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Quote from: acquafredda on December 17, 2020, 04:38:05 AM

Do yourself a favour and install an adblocker. Google is getting pretty bad at this lately! Also, do not use google for your searches but go fro duckduckgo, startpage and other privacy centric search engines.

Unfortunately, this internet-monster is the leader of user requests.
In 2020, It takes the biggest advantage in the mobile version of search, but for the desktop version, Google's share is unmatched. The global desktop market share is 70.60%.
The share of other search engines in the world market:
Bing - 13.2%
Baidu - 11.77%
Yahoo - 2.30% of the market.

Google has over 2 trillion searches a year

And all phishing scams target this search engine, of course.

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