GBP Ownership Requests - spam

[Hannah Brown]

Some of our clients are seeing an increase in GBP ownership requests that appear to be spam.

1. Google says when you request ownership that the "current owner" has 3-5 days to respond. If a company is getting an influx of ownership requests and they miss one, do they run the risk of Google automatically transferring ownership due to a lack of response to one? Even if we're active monthly in the account.

2. Is there a way to combat the spam ownership requests other than consistently "denying" the request?

 

[Professor M]

1. Yes, but now new users are locked in for 7 days, so they cannot remove another user for the first seven days.
2. No.