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Re:FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews by kabes on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:59AM (#28860950)
For the same reason that on facebook I still get daily friend requests from very sexy women with a brand new profile, 4 friends total, none in common, in a random location in the world with 1 post linking to some dating site. It's because they just don't care. Well, either that or facebook engineers are completely incompetent.
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Re:FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews by bigiain on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:42AM (#28861214)
> Well, either that or facebook engineers are completely incompetent.

Or they're making bank on dating site affiliate fees as a side hustle...

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Re:FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews by 3np on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:00AM (#28861311)
They don’t need to. The increased time you spend in the site as a consequence is enough of an upside to look the other way.
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Re:FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @07:35AM (#28862945)
This really isn't true. Remember that FB has many, many users and (presumably) many, many scammers, so one would expect to see lots of scams.

I too get those (messages lately) friend requests, and almost always by the time I read the message the account has been deactivated (when it says FB user).

So, overall, I think they're doing a reasonably good job on this particular problem.

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Re:FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews by kabes on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:22AM (#28863883)
My experience is different. I have many times reported a profile like this. Exactly as described above, a child can see it's a scam account. And then a couple of days later got message that after review the profile doesn't violate the community standards.
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Re:FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @11:13AM (#28865427)
really? That's very odd (not that their reporting system sucks, it definitely does), but that you need to report it.

Interesting that we have such different experiences, I wonder why that is. (remember that on FB, a 1 in a million event occurs approximately 3k times per day).

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