Well...the first part, as google junky pointed out, was covered to death. So I won't go there again.
So, with that said, on to 2) and 3).
2) If Google has AdSense running on the SERP pages, it is unlikely they'll act any time soon. That's extra money in their coffers, and they're a for-profit corporation. So they've got a vested interest in keeping the spammers in.
Mind you, sooner or later they'll have to crack down on this type of thing...not because of irrelevant SERPs and scraper pages finding their way in, but because of advertisers who pull out because they're pissed off at the irrelevant scraper pages they find their ads on. It may take a while, but Google will act...eventually.
3) Minimal, in the worst case. You don't control the content of the scraper pages, or any other pages that you don't have FTP or other access to. It would be all too easy for competitors to knock other competitors out of the SERPs.
I'm on at least 20 scraper pages that I know about (and hundreds more I probably don't), and nothing has ever happened to me in this regard. Again, I don't control it.
If you want to see some of them, use Google and search for "ADAM Web Design" and then one of 5fish.net , 360mediaworx.com , elehost.com , or abacus.ca . I'm not going to provide direct links since linking to spam is bad, mmmkay?
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