“Unmasking the Truth: Is Facebook Turning a Blind Eye While Scam Publishers Cash In on Your Trust?”
- When a scammer runs an ad on Facebook, Meta Platforms (the owner of Facebook) PROFITS from that ad.
- Facebook routinely declines to take action to remove an ad or page when it is reported by another Facebook user.
- Meta is well aware that foreign companies are scamming people using their websites (Facebook and Instagram).
- We have submitted hundreds of complaints to Facebook over the past several months. After Angela contacted the head of Meta’s legal department, we were introduced to Meta’s Legal Investigations Unit. We started sharing specific details about each scammer, including their Facebook account links, and offering screenshots as proof of the scams. Facebook at first removed a handful of those pages. However, Facebook has not responded to any of our other correspondence, which included more scammer names, Facebook page links, details about the scams, and offers of screenshots. It appears we’ve been ghosted by Meta/Facebook. Are you mad? We are, too! Just for you, we’ve included contact information for those folks at Meta/Facebook in the article below.
- If you’ve been duped by a scammer on Facebook, please contact Angela. We are compiling a list of victims.
Several months ago, I identified roughly twenty-five blatant publishing scams on Facebook. I marveled at that number. Today, the tally exceeds an alarming 800 predatory publishing scammers advertising their “services” on Facebook, Instagram, and even LinkedIn. It’s spiritually depleting, to say the least. So many people assume that, if a company is buying ads online, it must be legitimate. Appallingly, some people still even believe that everything on the Internet is true.
