Google stated late previous week that it’s setting up a new confirmation program mark to support tech support scams off its promotion platform. Tech support scams yet stand for a major problem and while these sorts of schemes are frequently uncomplicated, fraudsters have been recognized to exercise some ingenious ways to accomplish their aims.

Tech support scammers can enticement their individuals through online ads, and Google’s promotion platform has been accelerating maltreatment for this intention. That is why the tech giant has thought over to inform some limitations for tech assistant services.

“We’ve seen a rise in misleading ad experiences stemming from third-party technical support providers and have decided to begin restricting ads in this category globally,” said David Graff, director of Global Product Policy at Google.

“As the fraudulent activity takes place off our platform, it’s increasingly difficult to separate the bad actors from the legitimate providers. That’s why in the coming months, we will roll out a verification program to ensure that only legitimate providers of third-party tech support can use our platform to reach consumers,” Graff explained.

While Google is cognizant that the introducting part of the new confirmation program will not artifact entire effort to “game” its advertising systems, the company is confident that it will at least make it “a lot harder.”

Google formerly prohibited ads for bail bonds aids and payday loans, and acquainted confirmation services for locksmith services and addiction attention centers. The company stated that it had remunerated out $12.6 billion to announcing partners in its ad network previous year. But then, it erased 320,000 publishers, and black booked unsmooth 90K websites and 700K mobile applications.

Google also stated it took down 3.2 billion ads promotions that broke its policies in 2017, which corresponds unsmooth 100 bad ads promotions per second.

“We blocked 79 million ads in our network for attempting to send people to malware-laden sites, and removed 400,000 of these unsafe sites last year. And, we removed 66 million ‘trick-to-click’ ads as well as 48 million ads that were attempting to get users to install unwanted software,” the company said in its report for 2017.

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