Scammers are hosting sites on site.google.com and from there, they promote the website to Google ads directly sponsored. When you search for the website on google, the sponsored ads comes before the real website.
Here is one example, I searched for Uniswap on Google and I was shown this below.
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You can see the fake website at the top shown sponsored. It direct you to this website:
https://sites.google.com/view/apdfaz/uniswap
Real website:
https://app.uniswap.orgDon't rely on google for real links, it can be misleading sometimes.
That's a good catch mate. I have known that Google doesn't scan for phishing sites and just allows it on their search engine but didn't know about the hosting on site.google.com
This is new for me and it's shocking that its not showing the whole URL but only site.google.com
I tried searching Uniswap from my browser but I didn't get that sponsored ad. May be they have removed it now from the search results.
It's a good awareness that you are spreading and people should know about this.