Quote from: blckhawk on Today at 10:40:18 AM

It is vague, but someone told me or perhaps I heard from anyone that website owner pays Google in order for their site to be shown upon the top search. It's all business we can't do anything regard with it that is why I said they are not to blame here.

Google will happily accept money from scammers and fraudsters not only to run their ads, but to boost their ads to the top of search results. Google do no research in to the ads they accept - as long as someone is willing to pay them for the ad, then they are more than happy to run any and every scam ad around and do not care if users such as OP or yourself lose money. As long as they make a profit, that's all that matters.

Google are an immoral bunch of privacy invading thieves, as far as I am concerned. Notice that every post we see on here complaining about scams in search results is about Google. I've never seen a single post complaining about scam results showing up in good privacy respecting search engines such as DuckDuckGo or Qwant.

Stop using Google. You are freely handing over your data for the privilege of being scammed.