To fight online scammers, Bing shows warning ads

PC World | at | by Mike

Look for a way to fix your credit or transfer money on Microsoft's Bing these days and you'll get some friendly advice from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

The FTC has teamed up with Microsoft to place public service announcements in search results, every time someone searches for one of these terms.The idea is to lend a helping hand to consumers who get targeted with mortgage foreclosure or credit scams and turn to Bing for more information. A search for "fix my credit," for example, generates about a dozen ads, but one of them is an FTC public service announcement entitled "Avoid Credit Repair Scams."