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Facebook scam ads now leverage AI and deepfakes to create convincing celebrity endorsements, targeting specific demographics ...
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Scammers are currently capitalizing on investors' emotions with fraudulent Facebook ads to lure users into handing over large ...
One page on Facebook’s ad library, for example, shows that a now-defunct scam page called Byagadget ran 8 ads for a zip-up top over one week in June. The Byagadget page spent $200-$300 on the ...
Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says scammers can create fake sites, tricking people into monthly subscriptions and ...
Not everyone in the Facebook ad's comments fell for the scam. One user, James Marshall, caught my attention. Marshall, who works for an educational charity and runs a small business in Thailand ...
Facebook and Instagram advertising is being ... features to make their ads look more trustworthy. “These scam ads look real and can be carefully targeted to reach a particular audience.
They wanted to know if the ads are legitimate or scams. Facebook posts advertising $39 mobility scooters are scams. Many of the ads use real logos and names of credible companies to trick ...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, is struggling to control the rise of cyber scams on its ...
The AG letter to Meta detailing the scam includes reports of individuals losing anywhere from $40,000 to $100,000 or more after clicking on a fraudulent ad on Facebook. Other investment scams ...