This is a new scam that appears when your browser and you click a link on an affected page. It may also appear when you change pages within a site. And it may also seemingly appear out of nowhere.<\/span><\/p>\n When you see it, we want you to know it’s a scam and its purpose is to collect your personal information.<\/span><\/p>\n Here’s what it looks like.<\/span><\/p>\n At first glance, it looks like a real Google page with the Google logo.<\/span><\/p>\n But if you look at the URL in the address bar of your browser, you’ll instantly see that it’s not Google at all, but a site with a URL that begins with privatedevphonebest.club<\/span><\/p>\n Let’s take a closer look at the text in this scam<\/span><\/p>\n You’ve made the 7.38-billionth search!<\/span><\/p>\n Congratulations! You are the lucky winner!<\/span><\/p>\n Every 10 millionth search is reached worldwide, we will proclaim a winner to send out a thank-you gift.<\/span><\/p>\n Please select your lucky prize below and claim it by following the instruction.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n If you click “Select” under a prize, you’ll see something like this…<\/span><\/p>\n When you click “Accept Prize” you will see this:<\/span><\/p>\n Once you click “CLAIM YOUR PRIZE” you’ll be asked a number of questions. You’ll also be asked for your email address and other information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Needless to say, there is no prize, no $1000 Amazon gift cards, no gifts at all. This is just a scam to get your email address and your personal information.<\/span><\/p>\n Beware of this scam and others like it. <\/span><\/p>\n We just wanted to give you a heads up and help you to stay safe.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beware of This New Google Search Scam This is a new scam that appears when your browser and you click a link on an affected page. It may also appear when you change pages within a site. And it may also seemingly appear out of nowhere. When you see it, we want you to know it’s\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2247,1680],"tags":[3966,589],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19586,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583\/revisions\/19586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Beware](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/googscam1.png\")
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