It's not Google's fault, but my rankings are so impossibly low that whenever I get new business from a Google query I can assume that someone is up to no good. Another hit today, this time from bazrate@yahoo.com (at least they had the good sense to use a more generic service) and a European IP ( 192.116.105.78 ).
The credit card holder said they already tried to wire some of her funds to Nigeria and bought over $1000 of crap. On my end, they wanted to set up a lottery site. This is arguably more legitimate than the phishing customers we usually get, but does that win them any points?
This is why I prefer to host for people I know. If we all did business with people we met and could talk to, these risks wouldn't be so significant. Of course that's not a reality these days but if I work just a little harder then I can build my own isolated utopia.