Ready for 5,100 % profit? Follow this fishy spam on Facebook!

maxinpower (72)in #spam • 6 years ago

It wasn't so long ago that Facebook was proclaiming to stop all cryprocurrency advertisement on their platform

Well, fair enough. It's theirs and they can come up with any rules they want.

However, yesterday one add somehow caught my eyes and made me to check it out.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2183868258530117&id=1642986232618325

After seeing the screenshot you might think you would be directed to some CNBC-website, but then you are far off the mark. Depending on your browser's setting you will be forwarded to some site which bears the official CNBC-logo and looks pretty genuine at the first glance.

And the header puts it clear and straight: Singapore adopts cryptocurrency and establishes some official coin.

After scrolling down and starting to read you will notice soon, that something is kinda dodgy here. This suspicion gets confirmed as soon as I checked the URL, lahueva.com.

This site links you further to cashlesspaygroup.com and entertains with a promise of whopping 5.100% profit when paying their coin right now.

https://cashlesspaygroup.com/

Since Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Al Gore are promoting this great chance, what possibly could go wrong at all.

I even dared to watch the promotion video. Lambos and yachts tune you into the right mood to join this awesome project. I'm already planning how to spend the millions coming in in a few months.

So Facebook stopped all the adds promoting cryptocurrency projects and ICOs, claiming to stop advertising for “financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.”

Instead they are now providing only high-quality adds from trustworthy customers, like this one here, and spamming my Facebook newsfeed with more and more unwanted posts.

And as we could witness today, now they are starting to stop Facebook-pages for more and more obvious reasons. Seems they are finally moving over to controlling which information we should be allowed to read.

Will everything inconvenient be banned now?
And instead we gonna be flooded with fishy spam adds?