The great Facebook snack scam of 2023

Ben Rothke
3 min readMay 30, 2023

Facebook has turned into a scammers paradise

If you like studying fraud and scams, there’s no better place for it than Facebook. Where else can you find a site with hundreds of millions of gullible people and a platform that makes scamming so very easy.

Facebook is a great place to see pictures of cats, and get ripped off. While much of Facebook ads are legitimate, it has turned into a scammer’s paradise given the ease of use and billions of users.

Here’s a recent scam that caters to one of the most fundamental human instincts: the need for snack foods.

Here is an example of recent ads that can make a person drool due to the low cost. This scam does not have clandestine terms and conditions, which is part of a different Facebook scam.

A person enters their information, including credit card information. You will be told that your payment was declined no matter what you entered. Most people will try again or use…

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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.