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Facebook Scams

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[ Update -> Facebook have had a change of policy and most of the scams are now gone ]

Facebook seem to be happy to take money from just about anyone, I have seen literally hundreds of scams advertised at me on the Facebook site.

I have been telling them about these adverts for months but still they persist in allowing them to be shown. Surely knowing they are scams and continuing to show the ads make Facebook complicit in the scam?

Terms and Conditions

In Facebook’s advertising terms and conditions it explicitly states that scams are prohibited content, but there the fraudulent adverts are…. maybe FB just don’t care?

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Written by Jon

February 10th, 2009 at 9:52 pm

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