Facebook shut down and sued one company in the US and one in Vietnam for fraud through its platform.
In an announcement on his website το Facebook ανακοίνωσε σήμερα ότι στην προσπάθεια τους να καταπολεμήσουν την κατάχρηση της πλατφόρμας τους, κατέθεσαν σήμερα two ξεχωριστές νομικές αγωγές εναντίον των απατεώνων που παραβίασαν τους Όρους και τις Πολιτικές διαφημίσεων.
In the first case, the defendants are a company marketing it California που έτρεχε μία διαφήμιση – δόλωμα και στην δεύτερη περίπτωση, οι κατηγορούμενοι είναι μια team of people located in Vietnam and was stealing users' passwords and making them see unauthorized ads.
The trick that these companies made money is interesting, so read below so that you do not suffer from it. Specifically:
The first lawsuit is against N&J USA Incorporated, Mohit Melwani and Vishaal Melwani, who placed misleading ads on Facebook promoting the sale of merchandise such as clothing, watches and toys. When someone did click in one of these ads, they were redirected to third-party e-commerce sites to complete their purchase. After paying for an item, users either never received anything or received products that were different or of lower quality than advertised.
In an attempt to hide the Facebook bait system, the defendants blocked and hid user complaints and negative reviews on their Facebook pages.
The second action is against four individuals residing in Vietnam, Thêm Hữu Nguyễn, Lê Khang, Nguyễn Quốc Bảo and Pham Hữu Dung, who used a technique known as "session theft" or "cookie theft" to hack accounts of advertising and commercial agency employees and then run unauthorized ads.
Οι κατηγορούμενοι παραπλανούσαν τα θύματα εγκαθιστώντας μια εφαρμογή για κινητά από το Google Play Store που ονομαζόταν παραπλανητικά “Ad Manager για το Facebook”. Αυτή η εφαρμογή, η οποία έχει αφαιρεθεί έκτοτε από το Play store, δημιουργήθηκε από τους κατηγορούμενους και ώθησε τους χρήστες να μοιραστούν τα διαπιστευτήρια σύνδεσης στο Facebook και άλλες information, οι οποίες στη συνέχεια χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για access on their Facebook accounts and to display advertisements.
In some cases, these ads also promoted online scams. The group raised more than $ 36 million in unauthorized ads.