Ask HN: Is anybody else getting Facebook phony tagged-photo spam in their feeds?
2 by DrScump | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I've seen this using multiple, unrelated Facebook users in my feed: There's a fake Ray-Ban "Official Site" (rbdxxx.com, not the true Ray-Ban site, but a scammer) that used to generate fake recommendation posts from friends, presumably ones with weak permissions and/or passwords. In the past 2 weeks, I've seen multiple cases of a fake Ray-Ban site now generating fake "1-day sale" ads as photos in somebody's Facebook photo set and then broadcasting ads by "tagging" each of their friends as being in the fake-photo-ad, which then generates an ad in each of their friends of the form "(Your friend name) was tagged in a photo." The only flagging mechanism I see is to: - click on the ellipsis - select "Give feedback on this photo" - click Spam - click Send ... but it's built around being disciplinary to the Facebook user, and they lack a means of calling attention to the underlying fraudster.
I've seen this using multiple, unrelated Facebook users in my feed: There's a fake Ray-Ban "Official Site" (rbdxxx.com, not the true Ray-Ban site, but a scammer) that used to generate fake recommendation posts from friends, presumably ones with weak permissions and/or passwords. In the past 2 weeks, I've seen multiple cases of a fake Ray-Ban site now generating fake "1-day sale" ads as photos in somebody's Facebook photo set and then broadcasting ads by "tagging" each of their friends as being in the fake-photo-ad, which then generates an ad in each of their friends of the form "(Your friend name) was tagged in a photo." The only flagging mechanism I see is to: - click on the ellipsis - select "Give feedback on this photo" - click Spam - click Send ... but it's built around being disciplinary to the Facebook user, and they lack a means of calling attention to the underlying fraudster.
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