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March 25, 2011 02:00 am GMT

Easy Cash!? Google Beats "~Google Money' Scammers, Is Awarded $1.6 Million

As an intelligent, tech-savvy reader of TechCrunch, you're probably pretty good at spotting online scams "from Nigerian Princes to friends "stuck" in London, many of us have trained ourselves to mentally rule out any offer that seems too good to be true, especially when it includes words like "Easy Cash". But there are still plenty of people who fall prey to online scammers.Back in December 2009, Google filed suit against a number of scamming rings that were rampantlypromotingsites promising "Easy Cash with Google" (of course, they offered nothing of the sort). Now the courts are siding with the search giant, ordering the rings to cease their behavior and to pay Google $1.6 million.

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