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Jul 15, 2024 · According to Trustwave’s report, the hackers behind this latest round of attacks have taken out thousands of ads for each individual campaign. For instance, the top campaign called “blue-softs ...
- Anthony Spadafora
3 days ago · Facebook Ad Accounts. Many hackers want Facebook profiles so they can access and manipulate their corresponding ad accounts. ... Hacked.com is a part of Hawkfish AS. Contact us by sending an email ...
Jul 16, 2024 · As per the report from cybersecurity researchers Trustwave, threat actors have been abusing Facebook’s ad network to create malicious advertisements for things like Windows themes, top games, AI ...
- Sead Fadilpašić
- The Scam
- The Hack
- The Scammers
- What Can Be Done
Digital marketer Loni Mayse knew something was wrong when ten of the Facebook ad accounts she manages started running $15,000 per day ads for what she describes as a "Santa Clause on a stripper pole" Christmas decoration. "Let's be honest who the fuck wants that?" she said, referring to the product being hawked via ads on a Facebook post describing...
How are these scammers gaining access to all these Facebook ad accounts? It's pretty sneaky. A scammer will reach out to a digital marketer via Facebook Messenger posing as someone looking to hire a Facebook ad campaign manager. After their pitch, they'll send over a project proposal with all the details about the company, budget, and what they're ...
Perhaps the most incredible thing about this scam is that the alleged perpetrators are openly bragging about their success right on Facebook, on what appears to be legitimate profile pages. That's right. It's known who they are, or at least what they go by on Facebook, thanks to sloppiness on their part. "They left way too many breadcrumbs," Mayse ...
Unfortunately, it appears Luan is right. This Facebook ad hack and scam is only getting worse, and it appears like not much is being done about it. For example, Mari Smith, one of the biggest names in the Facebook marketing world, recently sharedthat she fell victim to this very same scam too. There is a history of Facebook-related ad schemes attac...
- Matt Binder
- matt@mashable.com
Jan 17, 2024 · Jan 17, 2024, 3:54 PM PST. Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge. Facebook gets data on individual users from many thousands of companies, and a new study (PDF) from Consumer Reports tried to ...
Sep 28, 2023 · Jane Lee, who worked at Facebook on the trust and safety team in 2020, told Vox she saw similar cases out of Southeast Asia during her time at the company. Hackers would run fraudulent ads on ...
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Nov 4, 2019 · One campaign tried to use a person's credit card to spend $10,000 a day on Facebook scam ads. Hackers are targeting ad accounts and using victims' money to promote scam posts. As Henry Lau slept ...
