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> 3. Click on "Friends" and look at the Followers, if that Veteran has Friends from Nigeria then you know its a scam I get how to you this is a scam, but to t
by aaron695 7y ago
> 3. Click on "Friends" and look at the Followers, if that Veteran has Friends from Nigeria then you know its a scam
I get how to you this is a scam, but to the 200 million Nigerians it's not. And Facebook is both.
> 2. Right click the profile photo and do a google search on the image this will lead to some results taking you to sites that use the same profile picture
And this can be a good attack vector to DDOS someone, make up sites that are fake to take down their legitimate accounts. Facebook gets attacked multiple ways.
It's hard to know if Facebook here just has too much spam to deal with and it's not worth the time for one report compared with taking down 100 accounts through other means.
The fact Nigeria is one of the poorest countries in the world (http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/NGA http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/NGA) and has this image of being so Cyberpunk is kinda neat to me.
They cause real actual harm, yes, but then so do rich people. And the harm done in Nigeria having 90 million people on less than $1.9 a day is so large it doesn't even make the news.
- krageon 7y agoI think you missed their point. This list was meant as a holistic way to judge the scamminess of an account. All data points are therefore important and not necessarily distinctive on their own. Bringing up the living conditions in Nigeria is really out of left field, as it isn't topical at all.