Google Warns of Review-Bombing Extortion Scheme Targeting Businesses

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Scammers are increasingly “review-bombing” businesses on Google Maps to extort them into paying to remove the negative reviews. 

Google warned about the threat this week after business owners in New York, Florida, and elsewhere said they’d encountered the scheme in recent months. 

The scammers will publish numerous negative reviews for a business on Google and Google Maps, causing their aggregate…