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Scam tackle sites.

Trampster

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There are a couple of fairly cheap spare spools on eBay for a Penn Surfblaster I and I was wondering if they would fit my Surfblaster II, so put this in Google:

"Will Penn Surfblaster I spools fit the surfblaster II?"

Not a lot of concrete information came up up - there were a few links to WSF related threads, but what surprised me was the amount of scam sites selling tackle that came up in Google. I got to 11 and gave up. All of these sites have similar Gmail addresses in their contact details - no location, address or phone number. The website shown in Google was never the address that actually came up either, so spoofed. A few examples:

Out of curiosity, I put the same search in DuckDuckGo.com, my other search engine of choice, and didn't see a single spam site.

The scams going around on the Internet are definitely getting out of hand, and Google isn't helping the situation.
 
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