this social media advertising Once again, the hurricane caught the eye after chef Chicote, whose image was used in a scam, was publicly indicted. Before that, he was an Australian businessman who, last February, was responsible for bringing out the colors of the empire. Mark Zuckerberg.
Andrew ForrestAustralia’s richest man and CEO of mining group Fortescue Metals announced that he has filed a lawsuit. criminal case against the social network Facebook for allowing his image to be used on this platform in order to make comments, according to a complaint fraud.
The billionaire thinks Facebook Ads will allegedly violate the country’s money laundering laws. In a video released to the media, Forrest accused the tech company of red-handedness. “criminal reckless” for not taking the necessary steps to ban its circulation fraudulent advertisement who has been using it to promote his image since March 2019 investing with cryptocurrency.
For Australians, Facebook “did not establish controls or a corporate culture. prevent your systems from being used to commit crimes“.
Mining businessman who assures that the alleged crime is true First in the world Confronted with Facebook, the company asked its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to publicly withdraw it in 2019. fraudulent advertisement with your image.
The Western Australian Magistrates’ Court was scheduled to hold a preliminary hearing. March 28 To address the case of Forrest, who claims he is trying to defend the interests of all Australians who are victims of fraud.
“Social media is part of our lives, but it’s in the public interest to do more to make it happen. eliminating fraud on social media platforms or significantly reduced,” he said. civil process against Facebook in the United States.
For his part, a spokesperson AimFacebook’s parent company said it would not comment on this legal process, despite the tech giant’s emphasis on fraudulent ads trying to defraud people. violates their policiesThe Australian public network gets ABC.
“We just detect and reject The Meta spokesperson has asked not only the ads themselves, but also advertisers to block our services and, in some cases, take legal action to enforce our policies.
More fraudulent ad cases on Facebook
Despite these statements, the fact is that the case was condemned Andrew Forrest just use a familiar face or even a brandto try to fool the careless.
A Twitter thread on a website specializing in the world of cryptocurrencies explained how a few months ago Facebook allowed scammers to advertise using at least one thing on its platform. Amazon brand and even the image of its founder Jeff Bezos:
The fate of this ad fake posts striving for credibility nonexistent amazon cryptocurrency they want to sell:
Scammers warn that this fictitious cryptocurrency is “incredibly cheap.” bitcoin anyone ethereum. Not content with using the image of Jeff Bezos, they even allow them to use the image of the President of the Spanish Government. Pedro Sanchezalso in a video that doesn’t exist he talks about Amazon digital currency invented.
in another attempt to bring realism They even include articles allegedly dedicated to the brute attempt of deception, or even the currency or support of other prominent billionaires:
All this refers to the page they are trying to make. deceive the most careless and ignorant. And the “official cryptocurrency backed by the Amazon company” promises amazing benefits in just a week.
Of course, it can only be purchased from its own page. “Trustworthy”.
Cryptokenized account unsuccessfully attempted to be discovered who is behind He attempted such a brutish scam, but followed his trail as best he could.
After this topic was posted on Twitter, the account Amazon Help he regretted what had happened and asked the user to report what had happened on the “Help and Customer Service” page where he did not appear no report option such practices, of which they themselves are victims.
The aforementioned announcement facebook adsmonths later, keep circulating on the walls of a large number of Facebook users. Will Jeff Bezos be the next person to expose the world’s shame? empty filter When it comes to avoiding fake ads, this social network