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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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