Re:I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
by marcinzm on Monday September 14, 2020 @10:01AM
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Facebook ads seem to be an ocean of scams. If I click the comments of half the ads I see there's nothing but complaints about products not shipping, fake closeout sales, cloning another store and then not shipping, etc, etc. I'm guessing they delete the bad comments so you can only imagine how many people must be upset to not be able to handle the flood of bad comments. At this point I just assume any Facebook ad is a scam of some kind.
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I reported one such scam business and it's still operating months later. Best to just block all facebook ads and ignore any that slip through.
Perhaps a 'truth in forums' regulation should require all comments to be accessible, with the reason for their removal from standard view being indicated? That way removal of all negative comments could be monitored and consumers would have sufficient information to moderate their trust in companies advertising.
I reported one of the 'miracle showerheads' to UK Trading Standards [it was possibly ASA?] as it clearly gave false (physically impossible) claims. I was seeing lots of their ads on FB and people were clearly falling for it.
They reported back that it was a foreign company and so they couldn't do anything. Which is weird because they're allowed to advertise to me, so they should have to follow the rules. Also, they had a UK Trademark, which seems a major flaw - protect the trade of scammers but don't hold them to account.
I have Unlock origin and still get Facebook ads, any idea?
F.B. Purity should do the trick.
Ad providers should be liable for the content they distribute. This would be so beneficial for society and prevent malware/adware.
The only way to avoid facebooks scammy ads is to block them all, try FB Purity: https://fbpurity.com
Ad account manager can actually delete comments from the ad.
Which is why I assume everything is a scam since the ones I notice from comments are simply the ones that they either didn't bother to delete comments on or had too many negative comments to delete.