Scammers posing as crypto support representatives are all over social media and elsewhere. Now, it appears they’re buying Google ads to appear at the top of Google search results. While Google says it’s trying to weed out fraudulent advertisers, a few are still slipping through the cracks.

While phishing attacks like this are common in both crypto and tradfi, crypto platforms often lack the same safeguards as major banking platforms to thwart unauthorized transactions, nor do they have the same ability to rollback transactions.