30 plaintiffs in Japan sue Facebook owner Meta over fake ads

I saw one of those once.

Can't remember the politician who was supposedly taking in money every day.

Looked quite legit.

Directed you to a Bitcoin site.

It's about time! FB is riddled with fake ads. Electric bicycles reduced to ¥10,000 from ¥200,000. You check out the company and find the address is in the middle of a field somewhere and the number of employees is one!

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Internet providers and phone companies should be sued as well, not just Meta.

Providers are the ones providing Phone numbers and access to the internet NOT META.

Imagine how dumb you’d have to be to fall for one of these fake ads.

Just found another one. Electric bikes knocked down to 5,000 yen from 250,000 yen. Did a search on the address of the fake store on Google and found this: https://sagi-log.com/bicycle-specialty-store/#google_vignette (in Japanese).

"Sagi" = scam. This is a well known scam site and it's on FB NOW! Facebook (Meta) deserves to be sued big time. These guys just don't have any morals.

And "Elon Musk" is still trying to be my "friend."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-60789802

It is not happening only in Japan. Sorry for Meta but I hope they loose and have to pay back any amount the victim lost at the bare minimum. Targeting ad is their freaking job. They should have a real person check every single ad before publishing it, not just some program or whatever. Same for any message which could be one.

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Facebook sucks..

A famous person is pictured with a quote to invest in something, so they clicked on a link to buy it with Bitcoin?

Come on, the due diligence bar to investing is higher than that.

Do they want everything that appears on the net to be checked by a civil servant and only go live when the paperwork gets the magic hanko of certification and is faxed to Meta?

Caveat emptor. Use that chunk of your head between your ears. If it looks too good to be true, it will be.

Anyone that lazy with their cash and that gullible should surf only in the company of another person.

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Looked quite legit.

Directed you to a Bitcoin site.

Anything redirecting to a bitcoin site has surely got to raise flags. Unless you saying it looked legit until the Bitcoin site link. But really this is not a problem with just Meta. Basically unless you use an ad blocker, it's getting impossible to navigate through the cesspool of misleading ads fake AI generated clickbait. I miss the internet of the mid to late nineties.

He who does not look, gets took.

Buyer Beware

Unfortutely it is true. Facebook is being relapse, total irresponsible by publishing fake ads, as one announcing McDelivery for Japanese residents, offer for 300 yen, to get name, address, credit card details - and so, small debts are made, US$ 2.00 or Euro 1.95 of other countries, other suspicious websites - Reported to Meta Facebook, and after some days they make an automatic reply, saying that the ad does not go against the Community Standards! Complain again and they send to an outside Oversee Board, this, on October 6th, the fake ad was reported on September 24th, no reply so far - It is a shame that Facebook does not check the identity of the ad, in this case, was impersonating MacDonalds. Facebook is a dangerous place, I personally decided never more to believe in ads as Facebook is being irresponsible, does not answer, does not care at all.

And meanwhile, the fake ads continue. Nothing has changed. As long as the money rolls in Facebook doesn't care where it comes from.