For the last 5 years or so, I've noticed that Facebook HELPS scammers on the social media site by allowing advertisements that, even when reported, are allowed to stay up because they don't go against Facebook Advertising Standards. For the last 5 years I have identified MANY scams on Facebook and reported them. EVERY SINGLE TIME I get a report response that says Facebook is taking no action, however, they won't show ME the ad again.
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The most recent one happened on June 1, 2024. I had been seeing ads for a music company going out of business. Sam Ash, which sells musical instruments has announced they are going out of business. Not one day later I started seeing ads that were obviously fake. The official Sam Ash website is samash.com, however, I started seeing links that were fake, such as samashguitar-us.com.
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One of the tell-tale signs this was fake (besides not being samash.com) was a domain lookup, which shows a Chinese registration on June 1, 2024. A second sign is that (as of when I last looked), EVERY product on this fake site is $129.98, regardless of ho much it supposedly originally cost. An item could have been $49.99, but is now $129.98 (marked up?!?) or $9,877 and is now $129.98, including entire drum sets, which costs hundreds to ship, but are apparently FREE SHIPPING.
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Anyway, I did what I usually do; I reported it to Facebook. As usual, I eventually got a response saying that they're not taking action, because it doesn't go against Facebook Advertising Standards. I give up! It's clear that Facebook won't take action because they want to revenue from advertising, regardless of who gets hurt.
Facebook is a total JOKE with stuff like this..... I've reported fake profiles, scams, one guy using the "N" work using it like 20 times in 60 seconds, porn ect and get the same garbage....
Yeah, I haven't been on FB for many years.