The Facebook έκλεισε και έκανε μήνυση σε μία εταιρεία στις ΗΠΑ και μία στο Βιετνάμ για απάτες μέσα από την πλατφόρμα του.
In an announcement on his website Facebook announced today that in an effort to combat the abuse of their platform, they today filed two separate lawsuits against fraudsters who violated the Terms and Advertising Policies.
In the first case, the defendants are a California marketing firm that ran a bait-and-switch ad, and in the second case, the defendants are a 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 treatment is against N&J USA Incorporated, Mohit Melwani and Vishaal Melwani, who placed misleading advertisements on Facebook promoting the sale of merchandise such as clothing, watches and toys. When someone clicked on one of these ads, they were redirected to third-party e-commerce sites to complete their purchase. After payment for one 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 lawsuit is against four people living 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". theft) to breach the accounts of employees of advertising and commercial agencies and then run unauthorized advertisements.
The defendants deceived the victims by installing a mobile application from Google Play Store that was misleadingly called “Ad Manager for Facebook”. This app, which has since been removed from the Play store, was created by the defendants and prompted users to share their Facebook login credentials and other information, which was then used to access their Facebook accounts and serve ads. .
In some cases, these ads also promoted online scams. The group raised more than $ 36 million in unauthorized ads.
