00:00 Reply All opened up a tip line and received numerous stories from listeners about their experiences with online scams and shady Google AdWords practices.

03:57 Listeners shared their experiences with various online scams, including ticket scalping websites, fake government service websites, and deceptive abortion clinic websites.

07:58 Crisis pregnancy centers are using Google AdWords to mislead people seeking abortions, while Google customer service representatives have had to coach advertisers on using explicit keywords for pornography ads.

12:01 Google AdWords has a more detailed list of rules that they keep private in order to prevent scammers from figuring out how to get around the system.

17:29 There is a syndicate of locksmith fraudsters who have figured out how to outmaneuver Google and make a lot of money by scamming people who are locked out of their houses.

22:13 Locksmith fraudsters have been able to scam people by creating multiple fake listings on Google Maps, and they have even formed competing cartels to carry out these scams.

26:51 Dan, a volunteer for Google Mapmaker, was deleting fake locksmith listings on Google Maps, but other volunteers were undoing his edits, so he made a deal with a fraudulent locksmith operator named Boaton Cason to leave his listings alone in exchange for information on other spammers, but eventually lost faith in Google and placed a marijuana grow room on Google Maps to demonstrate their faulty record keeping, resulting in him being fired from his unpaid job.

31:04 The host continues to investigate Mark Jakubecek and his involvement with USTaxiCabs.com, finding circumstantial evidence that suggests he may have been behind the website, and also discovers another scenario where scammers target people who have lost their wedding rings.

35:44 A man loses his wedding ring while swimming in the ocean, puts an ad on Craigslist, and is contacted by a member of an international organization called the Ring Finders who successfully locates and returns the ring.

39:47 Ring Finders is an organization of people who use metal detectors to find lost rings, and they have successfully located and returned almost 3,000 rings.