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Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by lwhi »

MagicPropmaker wrote: post #37
lwhi wrote: post #2

A local taxi company near me was relisted on Google maps using a pay-per-minute redirect service. The scammers get paid, and the customer is non the wiser until they get their bill. I was charged about £5 for a 30 second call.

That is amazing! IIRC in the U.S. there's a few second "grace period" where there's supposed to be an announcement that says "this call is $2 a minute" where you can hang up immediately and not get charged. I presume that's not how it works where you are!

It unfortunately isn't!

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by lwhi »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #4
lwhi wrote: post #2

A local taxi company near me was relisted on Google maps using a pay-per-minute redirect service. The scammers get paid, and the customer is non the wiser until they get their bill. I was charged about £5 for a 30 second call.

What would be a legitimate use case for redirect services?

This company described the service as 'revenue sharing' .. http://www.callagenix.com/numbers/090x-premium-rate-numbers

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by markdown »

memco wrote: post #111
gordo4 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OsmAnd is far superior to Google Maps in my opinion, especially for backcountry offline navigation. It's one of the most important apps when traveling abroad or when cell service is spotty. Google Maps is basically useless in rural South America, for example... and OSM is actually more up to date than Google Maps when it comes to river crossings, etc... and POI data is available for offline use. Google Maps can't eve…

> Google Maps can't even do offline navigation and rerouting. The iOS Google maps does offline navigation. I used it just this weekend on a long distance trip. You have to download the data beforehand, but if you have downloaded the data for a region you can search and route to any destination you want.

How do you tell it to download a specific location beforehand?

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by duiker101 »

markdown wrote: post #153
memco wrote: post #111

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> Google Maps can't even do offline navigation and rerouting. The iOS Google maps does offline navigation. I used it just this weekend on a long distance trip. You have to download the data beforehand, but if you have downloaded the data for a region you can search and route to any destination you want.

How do you tell it to download a specific location beforehand?

I'm not sure how to do in the iOS one but I ma sure it's possible because my partner does it. For Android you just need to go in the side panel and there is a Offline Maps button.

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by scarejunba »

hadrien01 wrote: post #30
scarejunba wrote: post #28

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GDPR principle d if the business is a person? (I don't actually know)

How can a business be a person?

What if my business is "John Doe, Independent Barrister"?

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by scarejunba »

jacquesm wrote: post #68
scarejunba wrote: post #28

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GDPR principle d if the business is a person? (I don't actually know)

GDPR data protection rules apply to natural persons, aka data subjects. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/

Imagine I am "John Doe, Independent Barrister" and that's my office.

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by monksy »

signal11 wrote: post #121
black-tea wrote: post #82

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Why do you work for Google for no pay? OpenStreetMap always needs work. Help the community.

It's not quite "pay", but Google have a notion of "points" to reward contributors, who they call local guides: https://support.google.com/local-guides/answer/6225851?hl=en Anecdotally it's mostly credits towards Google's own products, free storage, etc, but also freebies like subscriptions to the NYTimes Crossword, etc -- at least at the lower levels.

You're doing work for google, so you can invest in google products more?

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by Avamander »

gordo4 wrote: post #94
duiker101 wrote: post #83

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Honestly for me it boils down to Google maps being just a superior app. It's not even the amount of data in itself(which is a lot already tbh) but just the app being better. I don't think I have seen a decent OSM app yet.

OsmAnd is far superior to Google Maps in my opinion, especially for backcountry offline navigation. It's one of the most important apps when traveling abroad or when cell service is spotty. Google Maps is basically useless in rural South America, for example... and OSM is actually more up to date than Google Maps when it comes to river crossings, etc... and POI data is available for offline use. Google Maps can't eve…

Let me know when it gets a trip planner and has a mapmaker alternative.

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by eitland »

M4v3R wrote: post #138
eitland wrote: post #134

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How can I contribute to OpenStreetMap? (currently spending a few 5-15 minutes chunks of time on Google Maps)

Just go to https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and create an account, then click on the Edit button and start editing :).

Found no Edit button but at least I was able to report a misplaced feature.

Also I realized OSM has got the house numbers in my street correct, contrary to Google Maps.

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by Avamander »

superflyguy wrote: post #75
optimiz3 wrote: post #71

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Does Google pay you to moderate? What is the user incentive to commit hours of time to a 3rd party commercial enterprise?

Stack overflow is pretty popular. Although their recent attempt to "be nice to new users" (which wasn't necessary before, and coincides with the quality of answers rapidly approaching that of Quota) suggests that this won't last forever.

> (which wasn't necessary before, and coincides with the quality of answers rapidly approaching that of Quota)

It was absolutely necessary. It isn't a "meme" that SO community has hostile users. I hand out a lot of votes when browsing SO because so f many people don't really deserve the downvotes.

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