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Scammers are currently capitalizing on investors' emotions with fraudulent Facebook ads to lure users into handing over large ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, is struggling to control the rise of cyber scams on its ...

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

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says scammers can create fake sites, tricking people into monthly subscriptions and ...

Both firms said scam ads were not allowed on their platforms and would take action where necessary. See more stories on Insider's business page. Facebook and Google are failing to crack down on ...

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 ...

The FTC specifically named Facebook and Instagram advertising as usually being the source of advertising related scams. The government watchdog said that criminals are abusing advertising features ...

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 has launched a tool for U.K. users to report ads they suspect of being scams. The feature can be accessed by clicking the three dots in the top-right corner of each ad on Facebook ...

I write about how bitcoin, crypto and blockchain can change the world. Bitcoin scam ads, luring Facebook users with promises of riches using binary trading platforms, continue to plague the social ...

This ad, which targeted Facebook users in the U.S. who were over 40 and labeled as “very liberal” by the tech company, led some people to a scam site that froze their computers and tried to ...