Face Book "Likes" Scam

Banned 12 years ago

Scammers and cybercriminals are everywhere. We, netizens, should be vigilant and cautious on what we do online. That's the only way for us not to become victims of these ill-willed people.

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alpinewood

Banned 12 years ago

I read somewhere Facebook themselves are cracking down on these shady practices. Exploiting emotions for profit is a dirty business

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shintaiguy

12 years ago

Seen a ton of those, always wondered why so many people fell for it!

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mahol

12 years ago

these days i have also seen many FACEBOOK LIKES and NICHE TWITTER FOLLOWERs domains developed and growing very fast.......................all automated softwares and likes and followers exchange program is going on there...........

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Josh Monroe

12 years ago

Originally Posted by mahol

these days i have also seen many FACEBOOK LIKES and NICHE TWITTER FOLLOWERs domains developed and growing very fast.......................all automated softwares and likes and followers exchange program is going on there...........

Yup, as soon as one gets shut down, 10 more spring up.

It's like the war on drugs - FaceBook (in this case) will never win. It's just too profitable for the spammers to stop.

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datingworld

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Josh Monroe

Yup, as soon as one gets shut down, 10 more spring up.

It's like the war on drugs - FaceBook (in this case) will never win. It's just too profitable for the spammers to stop.

totally agree with you... I just read some more articles on this topic and I think facebook will not be able to stop it... lets see how it goes.

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betterwtveter

12 years ago

Yes these scam are everywhere, we need to watch out for them in our businesses and look out for them for our other marketing friends.

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Benomar

12 years ago

It seems very true. One way to find out about this is to look at the number of "likes" and the number of people "talking about this". If the number varies, means likes are fishy

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brentb

12 years ago

Who cares if businesses put up funny pictures to get more likes? They aren't CYBERCRIMINALS! LOL It isn't against the law or anything... don't 'like' stuff unless you want to 'like' it, do you need Facebook to babysit you while you are online?

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jeffreydale

12 years ago

Originally Posted by brentb

Who cares if businesses put up funny pictures to get more likes? They aren't CYBERCRIMINALS! LOL It isn't against the law or anything... don't 'like' stuff unless you want to 'like' it, do you need Facebook to babysit you while you are online?

No, but it's still against the TOS. You don't "own" a facebook page, facebook does. You can't just sell it.

-JD

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brentb 12 years ago

Originally Posted by jeffreydale

No, but it's still against the TOS. You don't "own" a facebook page, facebook does. You can't just sell it.

-JD

So Facebook should ban them or remove it from their TOS. This isn't even newsworthy. Most companies deal with this stuff (or don't) without it being in the news.

You aren't a cybercriminal for breaking TOS. Thats freaking hilarious!

And sure you can sell your facebook, myspace, or any other account like that. Sure its not 'allowed' and sure nobody really 'owns' it but you just send them the log in info, they change the password, tada!

I am pretty sure you can't change the name of your facebook page like this anyways so I think this is a SCAM article.
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Mr. Ken Russell

11 years ago

Originally Posted by brentb

Who cares if businesses put up funny pictures to get more likes? They aren't CYBERCRIMINALS! LOL It isn't against the law or anything... don't 'like' stuff unless you want to 'like' it, do you need Facebook to babysit you while you are online?

I have to agree with this.. the term "cyber criminals" makes it more extreme than what it is..

So what if people post funny pictures and get likes? People like attention.. What else is new.

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Soulstreak

12 years ago

This is totally false or extremely exaggerated. Facebook would easily fnd and ban these accounts right off the bat. And even after 30 days facebook makes your phone verify your account before they delete it.

It just simply would not work, and I know that for a fact. Any type of botting or suspicious activity gets deleted fast

twitter sure, but not facebook

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datingworld

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Soulstreak

This is totally false or extremely exaggerated. Facebook would easily fnd and ban these accounts right off the bat. And even after 30 days facebook makes your phone verify your account before they delete it.

It just simply would not work, and I know that for a fact. Any type of botting or suspicious activity gets deleted fast

twitter sure, but not facebook

I don,t think Face Book is able to identify bots / fake profiles that fast..

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247acheiver

12 years ago

This is true and I have personally witnessed it being done firsthand on a number of popular websites...Hopefully the "higher ups" in facebook will take action on this before it gets too out of hand (figure out a way to stomp out the problem on their end if possible)

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onSubie

12 years ago

Well, the story in the article just talks about "link bait"- a tactic that has been in use on the Internet long before facebook. Using enticing text or images to goad people into clicking.

Certainly emails saying "Click here to see [name of celebrity] naked before they are taken down!" pre-date facebook.

The article doesn't even mention that you don't need to run this "scam". You can just buy 20,000 likes on fiverr.

Mahlon

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datingworld 12 years ago

Originally Posted by onSubie

The article doesn't even mention that you don't need to run this "scam". You can just buy 20,000 likes on fiverr.

Mahlon

This is another thing,,,,,,,,,, too much fake things around..
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J Bold

12 years ago

Another poorly written news article by someone who simply isn't an expert in the subject being reported.

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datingworld 12 years ago

Originally Posted by J Bold

Another poorly written news article by someone who simply isn't an expert in the subject being reported.

thats what I thought,, Perhaps the writer dont have an idea such things exist from quite long time
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MarvyDery

12 years ago

Facebook made their system so porous to allow all these to happen. I guess this isn't happening on Google plus

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GBM

12 years ago

Lol these articles are getting old.

Someone doesn't understand the interent > doesn't understand the word "scam" > insists on overly using the word "cyber" > freaks the f*** out over nothing

Result:
FACEBOOK CYBERCRIMINALS PURCHASING FAKE PROFILES ON UNDERGROUND WEBSITE AND CYBERSCAM YOUR INBOX... ARE YOU SAFE??!!!

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KellyGi

12 years ago

I feel bad that all these people who bought those fake facebook likes are going to get cheated. Heard a rumor that facebook is putting out an allout effort to remove inactive accounts (about 3 billion of them) out of business... making all those fake likes disappear. Maybe then people will really understand that facebook marketing is about engagement and relationship building, not how many likes you have...

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danwood

12 years ago

New exchange sites are created every single day wich means this is growing fast. Social media websites have to solve this fast, sites like Pinterest are being really assalted by spammers.

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EasyMoneyDre

12 years ago

I read an article before on how one in three profiles are fake on social networking sites - they're probably bots who just like random content.

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Dryberry 12 years ago

Just like email spam, if there weren't so many dumb people, there would be nothing for spammers to do.
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garfield29

12 years ago

Facebook is one of the biggest social networking site globally and I trust they have ways to handle this kinds of cyber crimes.

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stevenschofield

12 years ago

Stay away from the scammers and concentrate on making a real business that you can be proud of and not a shamed.

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datingworld 11 years ago

Originally Posted by stevenschofield

Stay away from the scammers and concentrate on making a real business that you can be proud of and not a shamed.

thats what I am focused on.
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Antonio J.

12 years ago

They are probably the main reason why FB is getting so strict in all areas and disabling accounts all the time.

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datingworld 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Antonio J.

They are probably the main reason why FB is getting so strict in all areas and disabling accounts all the time.

I don't think Face Book is getting stricter... FB is still full of spam profiles...
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Ellie M

11 years ago

I agree that there are scammers everywhere and as long as it is profitable, even if only for a little while, this will continue. We all need to be vigilent and careful with what we do on social media sites.

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11 years ago

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Randall Magwood

11 years ago

I suspect in the near future that Facebook will remove the bulk of all new fake accounts and fake likes on their website... almost immediately.

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datingworld 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Randall Magwood

I suspect in the near future that Facebook will remove the bulk of all new fake accounts and fake likes on their website... almost immediately.

I doubt facebook will be able to do it,.... fake account holders are getting more clever than facebook itself... they wouldnt have a full controlled strategy to identify fake accounts,, at the end of the day,, if the worst come to worst on fake account holders, FB will ask for phone verification and these days Free Pa As You Go sim cards are available every where...
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Inspired, Inc.

11 years ago

always check your "recently like" page.... you'll know if you're acct is at risk and being used for this scam if you see fanpages that you're not familiar with.

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Tania Edwards

11 years ago

facebook need to be tighten on them.

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Perrymma

11 years ago

I really wish they would police these news stories more. This is getting out of hand. Atleast have some knowledge in what you are reporting.

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David Braybrooke

11 years ago

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anton111

11 years ago

unfortunately it is not a new thing

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EdVictor791

11 years ago

Thanks for the heads up on this...

from now on I will always look at facebook "likes" with a skeptical eye

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brunom

11 years ago

Cyber criminals? Did not expect the use of that term.

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Datingport 11 years ago

I use auto likes to promote my websites on fb. I do it very subtly so fb will never find it. I don't try to get hundreds per day, just 10 or so per day per site is sufficient. It's fully automated and it works. They are real users so I really don't think fb will be deleting them.

Also, it's not about how many likes I have. It's about having 10 fresh links on fb for fresh eyes to see every day.
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pusan

11 years ago

The likes are for no use If those are not coming from targeted people.Facebook recently took many actions to delete those fake accounts but I dont think its possible for facebook to delete all those accounts.Thats why people are still selling likes on places like Fiverr

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datingworld

11 years ago

Originally Posted by pusan

The likes are for no use If those are not coming from targeted people.Facebook recently took many actions to delete those fake accounts but I dont think its possible for facebook to delete all those accounts.Thats why people are still selling likes on places like Fiverr

I dont think FaceBook will be able to do anything about it... there are too manyyyyy fake accounts / bots on facebook that it has even confused FB on what to do..

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Janice Stacy

11 years ago

What can be done now by facebook?
Leave all those accounts which are already created. Make an identity verification process for each new account that will be created in near future. Make a 2 step login process which can be optional for account safety.

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