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Google AdWords has a policy against "Negative option or unclear billing practices". There is also a section on "Support advertised prices, discounts, and free offers."

http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?page=guid...

I'm going to assume that Scamville offers would fall under one of those categories. Hard to say without actual legal precedent.




"Google AdWords has a policy" ... but the problem is policies which are loosely enforced may as well not exist.

Google was quick to point out their policies to the FTC on the scammy government grant ads, and yet months later Google was running the very same scam ads http://www.seobook.com/buying-links-vs-buying-rankings

some more background on Google's ads http://www.benedelman.org/ppc-scams/ http://www.seobook.com/how-make-easy-money-google




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