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“Ads Inc.” used “rental” Facebook accounts to scam Boomers out of millions
- danso 7y agoThe amount of money being passed around, even for just the sake of "renting" a regular user's FB account, is astounding to me. It's even more than what I remember those scammy ad networks would pay you to install an ad-filled menubar on your computer, back during the dot-com era: > Taken together, documents, recordings, and other information provide an unprecedented, detailed inside look at how black hat affiliate markers weaponize targeted advertising, fake news articles, and overseas labor to exploit Facebook on a massive scale. Burke’s Facebook account operation eventually became so large that Ads Inc. began selling surplus rented accounts and pages to other marketers for $800 per Facebook login. Meanwhile, the people whose account logins were being sold were paid $15 to $30 a month.