Thursday, 5 October 2023

Fraudsters are targeting small businesses on Facebook

Which? found many phoney Facebook profiles that purport to be from Facebook and its parent company, Meta. Scammers impersonating Facebook send direct messages telling owners of business pages that their pages will be deleted for infringing Facebook's trademark rights.

Identifying fake profiles on social media such as Facebook can be difficult. Check out the fraudulent profiles we found that are sending these scam messages, so you can dodge them.

Phoney profiles

Source: Which? (3 Oct 2023)

URGENT APPEAL: Stolen Brown BMW 435 in Welling - AE15 HLN

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