#78 Very Quickly to the Drill

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

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🗓️ 29 September 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Alex and PJ chase down the strangest tips from our Weird Ads hotline, and at the bottom of the rabbit hole they find the Mother of All AdWords Scams. Futher Reading David Segal's story on locksmiths The Ringfinders website Form to give feedback on specific ads Google's statement on our episode: Our goal is to provide a great experience for the users, advertisers, and publishers that interact with our advertising products everyday. An important part of this work is listening to reactions—good, bad, and in-between—from our users about their experiences online. We appreciate this very much; it helps us make AdWords better. Bad ads are an industry-wide issue and we fight them with considerable fire-power: we’ve invested in best-in-class technology and built a global team of more than 1,000 googlers specifically dedicated to this effort. While this work has produced positive results—we disabled 780 million ads for violating our policies in 2015 alone—we understand this is an ongoing challenge for everyone and we’ll continue to battle it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:56.9	verify. From Gimlet, this is Replial. I'm Alex Gold. And I'm PJ vote. So a couple
1:11.9	of weeks ago, we did something that we've never done before. Something kind of dangerous.
1:16.4	I don't know if I would call it dangerous. Depends on your definition of danger. Your
1:21.3	definition of danger is incredibly mild. Yes. We opened up the Replial tip line basically.
1:28.1	We solicit. Not basically. We opened up a tip line. Play the tip line music.
1:33.8	So we reported a story a couple of weeks ago and it was about this sort of shady world
1:39.4	of online scams that was just so vast that we couldn't cover it on our own. Right.
1:44.7	There's no way to know what scams are out there because scammers aren't super great self-reporters.
1:50.1	Yeah. But our listeners are actually great self-reporters because they had a bunch of stories
1:56.2	about almost being scammed, actually being scammed, that took the reporting of the story so much
2:01.5	further. And stories that I don't know actually. Yeah. Okay. So wait, just quick recap of for
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