Facebook shut down and sued one company in the US and one in Vietnam for scams through its platform.
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 company marketing it California that ran a decoy ad and in the second case, the defendants are a group of individuals located in Vietnam that stole users' passwords and made 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 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 accused misled the victims by installing a application for mobile from 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 πληροφορίες, οι οποίες στη συνέχεια χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για πρόσβαση στους λογαριασμούς τους στο Facebook και για την προβολή διαφημίσεων.
In some cases, these ads also promoted online scams. The group raised more than $ 36 million in unauthorized ads.
