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Scamming via lookalike sites is very common, and Google should be ashamed of itself for its part in conning people out of money for no reason except to line its own pockets. In the UK:

"Google is coming under increasing pressure over taking money to promote copycat websites. Among the more printable comments sent to us this week from readers who have fallen for taxreturngateway.com was: "I believe Google is implicated in this as it is well aware of what's happening and why – and it too should be prosecuted". Others ask why Google couldn't at least move copycat sites to below the official sites on its search results page." http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jan/30/tax-return-pass...

I had to deflect my own wife from one of these, because of the deceptive way Google was displaying ads above organic search. I've experienced the second -- the (failed) attempt to install malware -- myself.