I was in a call today showing scams around the world and it's insane how out in the open some of these scams are.
One was showing products advertised on FB at an extremely cheap price. You think you're buying a widget but instead deep in the language you're buying a weekly service that shoots up to $100 a week. If you call to complain against the company you bought from, they tell you they won't cancel as you signed a contract.
In this particular case the security researcher reached out FB (privately, reporting it did not work) and showed the vast web of accounts buying ads and promoting it, which were soon banned.
It’s frustrating to me how broken the (automated?) moderation system is on Facebook (though for all I know every other social media is as bad, Facebook just gives more transparency as to what happens after a report).
You see tons of messages of just random new accounts, posting to strangers commenting on like a meme post, saying “I love your posts, I’d like to get to know you better, dm me on telegram…” or “I have earned $123,456 in 4 days thanks to the crypto genius Steve Bob [link to other fake profile]” - reporting them usually results in a “we didn’t take down the content” result. Any human knows this is pure fraud.
One was showing products advertised on FB at an extremely cheap price. You think you're buying a widget but instead deep in the language you're buying a weekly service that shoots up to $100 a week. If you call to complain against the company you bought from, they tell you they won't cancel as you signed a contract.
In this particular case the security researcher reached out FB (privately, reporting it did not work) and showed the vast web of accounts buying ads and promoting it, which were soon banned.