Facebook doesn’t care about fraud

Ben Rothke
3 min readSep 7, 2023

That’s why it’s a scammers paradise.

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Facebook knows I like coffee and snacks, that’s why I see ads like these:

In truth, they don’t know that I really like coffee and snacks. Rather that I click on ads for coffee and snacks. Except these are not really ads. They are pathways for identity theft and credit card fraud. Facebook knows this and does nothing significant about it.

You can report these ads, but it simply goes into a black hole.

I have reported these ads countless times, and still they proliferate. Rarely will Facebook get back to me that they have blocked these scammers. Ads are a cash cow at Meta. And they don’t want to kills the…

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Ben Rothke
Ben Rothke

Written by Ben Rothke

I work in information security at Tapad. Write book reviews for the RSA blog, & a Founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and Cybersecurity Canon.

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