Why can't facebook get a grip on these scams?

anotherquestion

Probably have been doing the rounds for a while now, but just spotted it myself in last few days.
A seemingly live video of a pop star, (Robbie Williams is popular) is shown on a fake facebook page, a split screen with the old video that the star has done live on facebok some time in the past, and on the right of split screen is a easy puzzle or something easy to guess.
The caption is something like  "hey I am giving away as a new year gift £500 to the first 50 to guess the number* typing a comment gets you asked to share the feed with your groups and a link to a webpage where  no doubt they harvest your cc or banking details.
At first glance it can come across as fairly genuine, and its amazing how many people respond and comment.
I wasted their time for a while by typing scam scam followed by a warning, soon got banned from commenting on a few feeds, others not as the scammers  probably  don't monitor their fake page all the time, probably just are interested in who was a sucker and give the banking details.
I don't know if Martin Lewis has put a warning on the site here about it, maybe facebook should do a lot more too.

Neil_Jones

Well if people didn't click on them and just totally ignored them they wouldn't generate any income so they'd stop putting them up.

jsmith9

Nobody cares - certainly not Facebook

All they want is for you to continue to engage with the platform so that they can continue advertising to you

DCFC79

Whats Martin going to do about it ?
Its down to Facebook to remove.

debitcardmayhem

Sensible people look both ways before crossing a road , except those engaging on Faceache on their phones

Neil49

Mark Zuckerberg has unleashed a monster into this world that is now running out of control. He is unwilling to spend the vast amount of money required to provide effective monitoring of Facebook content (or his many other projects) which are having a detrimental effect on people's lives.

Social media is a curse on this world, particularly for youngsters, and I would gladly see it disappear from our lives. 

Farway

Neil49 said:

Mark Zuckerberg has unleashed a monster into this world that is now running out of control. He is unwilling to spend the vast amount of money required to provide effective monitoring of Facebook content (or his many other projects) which are having a detrimental effect on people's lives.

Social media is a curse on this world, particularly for youngsters, and I would gladly see it disappear from our lives. 

Similar was said centuries about Gutenberg

Neil_Jones

Neil49 said:

Mark Zuckerberg has unleashed a monster into this world that is now running out of control. He is unwilling to spend the vast amount of money required to provide effective monitoring of Facebook content (or his many other projects) which are having a detrimental effect on people's lives.

Or people could take responsibility themselves for what they engage with on Facebook. If they are stupid enough to click on and respond to an advert like the one described then years ago it was a case of "damn, I should have known better than to get involved with that", and these days "it's somebody else's fault."  Bit like if you walk into a lamppost because you're too busy watching something on your phone, you probably shouldn't pee and moan that somebody should move the lamppost, because if you'd been watching where you were going you wouldn't have walked into it in the first place.

RumRat

People who are easily fooled into thinking they need Facebook are prime targets for scammers. 

flashg67

They're annoying, but do keep reporting them, and if they do appear as 'shares' in any groups you're in, report them to the group admins.
These fake profiles do get shut down quite quickly, but, as you say there are hundreds of them

IvanOpinion

The golden rule is that if you read anything on Facebook then assume it is a crock of BS until you can prove otherwise.