Small business owners are being targeted by scam artists who flood Google Maps and other sites with phony false reviews and then extort the business owner, offering to remove the reviews for a price.

There’s bad publicity, and then there’s what’s happening right now to restaurants on Google Maps: a wave of fake one-star ...

Some New York City business owners say they're being extorted by fake reviewers who leave a slew of negative Google reviews and demand money for it to stop. It's become so prevalent that CBS News New ...