Scam adverts on Facebook - FB refuse to remove
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I was serve what was clearly a scam advert pretending to be Laithwaite's wine. Silly cheap prices, a URL that was somethingsomething.lathwaites.com, incorrect address and 'about' info etc. It took maybe 2 mins to spot it was a scam - a very obvious one.
I reported to Facebook as a scam. This is something I have been doing regularly when I see dodgy ads.
Reply below, received two days after I sent in the report so I *think* done by a human not a machine.
FB are clearly not interested.
I am so close to coming off Faceache - I dumped t
tter last year, and this is one of the main reasons.
Is there anyway these mega (rich and size) platforms can be held liable for serving scam ads? Would any government legislate? I also assume that a 'merican or sub-saharan African person being paid threepance to check is also unaware of UK company branding etc - so real issues with the quality of the 'checking'...
I reported to Facebook as a scam. This is something I have been doing regularly when I see dodgy ads.
Reply below, received two days after I sent in the report so I *think* done by a human not a machine.
FB are clearly not interested.
I am so close to coming off Faceache - I dumped t
tter last year, and this is one of the main reasons.Is there anyway these mega (rich and size) platforms can be held liable for serving scam ads? Would any government legislate? I also assume that a 'merican or sub-saharan African person being paid threepance to check is also unaware of UK company branding etc - so real issues with the quality of the 'checking'...
There is a very common one I see along the lines of "My husband died, it's too painful to look at his Macbook and I have no need for it. If you would like a free Macbook, please DM me and I will give it someone who will use it".
The scam is that the picture of the device is nicked from elsewhere, the account is fake, they ask you to send $50 to cover insured shipping and you never hear from them again. Of course, people are dumb enough to fall for this, so this scam has proliferated greatly and appears regularly in various groups I'm in.
I've reported many times, for dead son's PS5s, guitars, mountain bikes etc, they never get removed as they "don't break community standards" despite the fact that the text is copy and pasted, the accounts that post are always a day old and have no pics, no posts, no other info etc. Facebook must get this scam reported thousands of times a day. You'd think they'd be able to detect and automatically remove this kind of think, but even when a human points it out to them, they do nothing.
The scam is that the picture of the device is nicked from elsewhere, the account is fake, they ask you to send $50 to cover insured shipping and you never hear from them again. Of course, people are dumb enough to fall for this, so this scam has proliferated greatly and appears regularly in various groups I'm in.
I've reported many times, for dead son's PS5s, guitars, mountain bikes etc, they never get removed as they "don't break community standards" despite the fact that the text is copy and pasted, the accounts that post are always a day old and have no pics, no posts, no other info etc. Facebook must get this scam reported thousands of times a day. You'd think they'd be able to detect and automatically remove this kind of think, but even when a human points it out to them, they do nothing.
POIDH said:
vikingaero said:
All those cheap and fake ads - £30k cars for £6k attract a gadzillion load of clicks. Kerrrrching! £££$$$
Indeed - and having reported a dozen obvious ones like that, I just went back and checked and NO action on any of them. 2022 S3 for £4k anyone?
I assume the scam is you'll be asked to Western Union a deposit before viewing or similar, does anyone have any insight?
POIDH said:
vikingaero said:
All those cheap and fake ads - £30k cars for £6k attract a gadzillion load of clicks. Kerrrrching! £££$$$
Indeed - and having reported a dozen obvious ones like that, I just went back and checked and NO action on any of them. 2022 S3 for £4k anyone?
My paypal account was debited by faceache for click ads on a car...weird as I wasnt selling a car at all. Someone, somehow managed to post an ad of a car and used my profile to pay for the clicks on the ad. I searched for the ad, and the same pic/car was "for sale" in several parts of the country. I contacted faceache who of course did nothing. I wormed my way thru their ads section etc and found the ad and profile, put all that to faceache....nothing. I copied it all to paypal and they gave me a rebate within a week.......copied that to faceache....nothing. They then banned me from marketplace........
After weeks/months they would' nt accept anything I said and just banned me. So I had no real choice to close that profile, start another......of course faceache then banned me from market place on that profile as well, despite not even having any ads.
Great company but its free so................!
Just scroll thru the ads and you'll see the same car/bike whatever for sale all over the place with differant profiles.
After weeks/months they would' nt accept anything I said and just banned me. So I had no real choice to close that profile, start another......of course faceache then banned me from market place on that profile as well, despite not even having any ads.
Great company but its free so................!
Just scroll thru the ads and you'll see the same car/bike whatever for sale all over the place with differant profiles.
POIDH said:
vikingaero said:
All those cheap and fake ads - £30k cars for £6k attract a gadzillion load of clicks. Kerrrrching! £££$$$
Indeed - and having reported a dozen obvious ones like that, I just went back and checked and NO action on any of them. 2022 S3 for £4k anyone?
POIDH said:
I was serve what was clearly a scam advert pretending to be Laithwaite's wine. Silly cheap prices, a URL that was somethingsomething.lathwaites.com, incorrect address and 'about' info etc. It took maybe 2 mins to spot it was a scam - a very obvious one.
I reported to Facebook as a scam. This is something I have been doing regularly when I see dodgy ads.
Reply below, received two days after I sent in the report so I *think* done by a human not a machine.
FB are clearly not interested.
I am so close to coming off Faceache - I dumped ttter last year, and this is one of the main reasons.
Is there anyway these mega (rich and size) platforms can be held liable for serving scam ads? Would any government legislate? I also assume that a 'merican or sub-saharan African person being paid threepance to check is also unaware of UK company branding etc - so real issues with the quality of the 'checking'...
Do yourself a huge favour and stop using the word "faceache"... You're not 8 and Arsebook is far better.I reported to Facebook as a scam. This is something I have been doing regularly when I see dodgy ads.
Reply below, received two days after I sent in the report so I *think* done by a human not a machine.
FB are clearly not interested.
I am so close to coming off Faceache - I dumped t
tter last year, and this is one of the main reasons.Is there anyway these mega (rich and size) platforms can be held liable for serving scam ads? Would any government legislate? I also assume that a 'merican or sub-saharan African person being paid threepance to check is also unaware of UK company branding etc - so real issues with the quality of the 'checking'...
Also do yourself a favour and install FB Purity on your browser and say goodbye to Facebook annoyances for good.
If you use the app, get rid of it and start using the browser.
I've mentioned this before...but will do so again.
They are rife, because of the way FB's algorithm works.
The more people that click on an advert/ listing. The higher the views it gets. This assumes it is popular and then gets pushed to the forefront.
Obviously a listing for a brand new M3 at £6k is going to get more views than one at £80k. So this is why you see them.
It is a scammers dream and no, FB will not do anything about it whatsoever, due to it all being controlled by artificial "Intelligence".
All it would take is some human involvement to put an end to it, but obviously that is a cost to them, so they don't bother.
What FB is too dumb to understand though, is that they are rather quickly gaining a "dodgy" reputation and people are starting to assume that EVERYTHING is a scam, including legitimate businesses.
I used to advertise my business on there, paying £x amount a month, however, I got sick of phone calls from people basically questioning it's legitimacy over the phone and having to give them a speech..."we have been operating for 20 years etc/ view our feedback", before they didn't place an order. Or people driving a 100 mile round trip to collect an order, when next day delivery is £4 online and being surprised that the business actually exists and the item is what it says on the website. Or having some random person asking if it is a scam in the comments, which then kills any sales as they put the frighteners up everyone else. I am sorry, but I am above that.
Unless you are a household name, you will encounter this and it is a by product of Facebook allowing the scammers to do what they do with impunity.
They are rife, because of the way FB's algorithm works.
The more people that click on an advert/ listing. The higher the views it gets. This assumes it is popular and then gets pushed to the forefront.
Obviously a listing for a brand new M3 at £6k is going to get more views than one at £80k. So this is why you see them.
It is a scammers dream and no, FB will not do anything about it whatsoever, due to it all being controlled by artificial "Intelligence".
All it would take is some human involvement to put an end to it, but obviously that is a cost to them, so they don't bother.
What FB is too dumb to understand though, is that they are rather quickly gaining a "dodgy" reputation and people are starting to assume that EVERYTHING is a scam, including legitimate businesses.
I used to advertise my business on there, paying £x amount a month, however, I got sick of phone calls from people basically questioning it's legitimacy over the phone and having to give them a speech..."we have been operating for 20 years etc/ view our feedback", before they didn't place an order. Or people driving a 100 mile round trip to collect an order, when next day delivery is £4 online and being surprised that the business actually exists and the item is what it says on the website. Or having some random person asking if it is a scam in the comments, which then kills any sales as they put the frighteners up everyone else. I am sorry, but I am above that.
Unless you are a household name, you will encounter this and it is a by product of Facebook allowing the scammers to do what they do with impunity.
FWIW and knowing it was a waste of time, I reported one with a link to an obviously fake BBC News page saying "Celebrity X revealed this way to earn millions on the Breakfast Show this morning", going on to say it's been cut from the catch up pages as demanded by The Bank of England, etc, etc.
An obvious fraud if ever there was one, but FB see nothing wrong with it.
An obvious fraud if ever there was one, but FB see nothing wrong with it.
Glassman said:
Last night I updated my business page with some images of a car I worked on. This morning I noticed there was a typo and went in to edit but couldn't save the changes. Turns out I'm now on a ban for two days for posting something that didn't meet the 'community standards guidelines'. What? A 996 C4S in Bath? No; something [what at the time was a funny pic] on my personal profile from 2018.
That's probably an automated rule that senses unusual behavior (e.g. hacked accounts) and thrown in the bucket of 'community standards guidelines'CanAm said:
FWIW and knowing it was a waste of time, I reported one with a link to an obviously fake BBC News page saying "Celebrity X revealed this way to earn millions on the Breakfast Show this morning", going on to say it's been cut from the catch up pages as demanded by The Bank of England, etc, etc.
An obvious fraud if ever there was one, but FB see nothing wrong with it.
In a similar way you get nabbed for using the word cracker but then cannot speak to anyone to explain the word means something completely different in (UK) English parlance. An obvious fraud if ever there was one, but FB see nothing wrong with it.
Glassman said:
In a similar way you get nabbed for using the word cracker but then cannot speak to anyone to explain the word means something completely different in (UK) English parlance.
I know most of the English ones that sound smutty to Americans, but that's a new one on me. What does it mean elsewhere?
CanAm said:
I know most of the English ones that sound smutty to Americans, but that's a new one on me. What does it mean elsewhere?
"Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial epithet directed towards white people, used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States"Vintage Saturday Night Live sketch from 1975 featuring Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor that gives some insight into words and phrases associated with the time, something that could probably never be recorded today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ&ab...
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