It seems everyone uses Google's free services. Its search engine is the most-trafficked website in the world. Over a billion people depend on Gmail for their email messaging. Google Meet provides multi-user remote video conferencing at absolutely no cost.
And more and more bad actors are utilizing Google Sites to defraud and scam internet users everyday. Wait…what?
Google has a problem. While its free services are great at making online tools more accessible to people around the globe, they also give scammers an easy way to set up shop. Without having to unveil their identities via credit card or billing address to make a payment, fraudsters can easily weaponize these products to carry out their scams.
Most people are familiar with products like Gmail and Google Meet and know that anyone can use these services. But Google Sites is a much lesser-known service. And the Google Sites service, which allows users to create web pages, provides a huge assist to scammers looking to hide under a veil of trustworthiness: a website under the Google.com domain name.
"On Google Sites, we explicitly prohibit phishing and we invest heavily in detecting, deterring, and removing abuse from our platforms,” said a Google spokesperson in a statement provided to Mashable.
Google is aware of the issue. However, the scams enabled by Google Sites persist. And they are not hard to find.
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