Facebook scam ads now leverage AI and deepfakes to create convincing celebrity endorsements, targeting specific demographics ...

Facebook Ad Scams Create a Bad Impression. Scammers leveraging Facebook ads is bad for consumers and for legitimate advertisers. Millions of dollars have been lost and the victims will tell a ...

As if we need a reminder to be wary of ads on Facebook and other social media, a recent report by the Wall Street Journal ...

More than 4,000 fake domains impersonating popular brands have been spotted in a scheme pushing scam ads targeting Facebook users.

Spokeo reports that with growing Facebook Marketplace usage, awareness of scams like counterfeit goods and phishing attempts ...

Scam-yourself attacks are rising fast, using AI-generated videos to trick people into handing over money or data. Facebook ...

A Facebook spokesperson denied that the company profits from scam ads: “We have every incentive—financial and otherwise—to prevent abuse and make the ads experience on Facebook a positive ...

Last night I was browsing Facebook and found 5 different scam ads.” A network of scammers It’s difficult to tell who or how many people are behind this scheme.

Scammers have no problem scraping a website and putting up a duplicate. This portion of a knock off website even used our Tom ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — By now, we all know you can’t trust everything you see on Facebook and that goes for shopping ads they make money from. Advertisements appear to show ...

On Jan. 27, 2022, a reader sent in a tip about a Facebook ad (and likely on Instagram as well) that promised $750 in Cash App rewards for free. The Facebook page was named Kjguyrt.It had been ...

Russian disinformation isn\u2019t the only deceptive political advertising on Facebook. More than a dozen politically themed advertisements mask consumer rip-offs that ProPublica has identified ...