{"id":10455,"date":"2025-11-24T14:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/google-review-blackmail-targets-small-businesses-across-europe\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:38:45","slug":"google-review-blackmail-targets-small-businesses-across-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/google-review-blackmail-targets-small-businesses-across-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Google review blackmail targets small businesses across Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/bd21ed48-baf2-11f0-9c33-005056bf30b7\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/Thumbnail-2.png\" \/><br \/>Small businesses worldwide are being targeted by scammers using fake Google Maps reviews to extort money. The fraudsters post one-star reviews \u2013 ever-more convincing thanks to AI \u2013 then demand payment to take them down. FRANCE 24 investigated one scheme targeting businesses in France and Spain.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/tech-24\/20251106-google-reviews-blackmail-targets-small-businesses-across-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small businesses worldwide are being targeted by scammers using fake Google Maps reviews to extort money. The fraudsters post one-star&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}