{"id":332,"date":"2007-12-23T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/google-maps-being-used-for-philly-fraud\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T19:54:37","slug":"google-maps-being-used-for-philly-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/google-maps-being-used-for-philly-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps being used for Philly fraud update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Updated<\/strong> 12\/23\/07<\/p>\n<p>Google has yet to remove this Mapspam. I have included additional spam details at the end of this post. Does anyone know the economics of having this many phone numbers?<\/p>\n<p>When searching on <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&amp;hs=YYo&amp;q=+locksmith+philadelphia,+pa+19125&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wl\">Philadelphia PA 19125 Locksmith<\/a> but I found this response of intense interest:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/PhillyFraud550.jpg\" alt=\"PhillyFraud550.jpg\" id=\"image333\" title=\"PhillyFraud550.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/user?uid=112182388271563757175&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=us\">reviewer Jack<\/a>, has been busy tracking these folks down.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nHere is the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=0+%26+0+24+Hour+Locksmith+Phildelphia+pa+19125&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wl\">link to the spam<\/a> that Jack is trying to expose.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things intrigueing about this mapspam is the use of such a large number of different telephone numbers. The total numbers are of interest as well: 1,699 for 0 &amp; 0 24 Hour Locksmith near Philadelphia, PA 19125. That&#8217;s a big number for one city.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/philly-flim-flam2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a surprise that any numbers are left for the rest of Philly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 12\/23\/07 Google has yet to remove this Mapspam. I have included additional spam details at the end of this post. Does anyone know the economics of having this many phone numbers? When searching on Philadelphia PA 19125 Locksmith but I found this response of intense interest: The reviewer Jack, has been busy tracking these &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}