Take their money
Posted on 10/17/2018 11:50:30 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Scammers in Bangladesh created over 1,700 fake Women's March Facebook pages in order to sell t-shirts, according to a CNN report.
CNN reported the Facebook pages appeared to be run by local Women's March organizers when in reality they were being created out of the South Asian country, with some of the pages linking to web sites intended to design and sell t-shirts and other merchandise.
The news agency brought the list of false groups to Facebook over the weekend, which swiftly deleted them and informed CNN that it was conducting its own investigation into the matter.
"These Pages and events appear to have been created in order to profit from people interested in the event by selling march-related merchandise," Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone told CNN.
"We continue to investigate, remove additional associated fake events and Pages, and take action against those involved in creating them."
According to the news agency, most of the fake pages had no followers or attendees, but a few picked up a big following.
Fake pages for events in Philadelphia and Chicago garnered over 10,000 RSVPs, according to CNN.
A Seattle event got above 20,000, though CNN notes that it is possible some of the RSVPs were fake in order to make the pages appear more popular.
According to Benjamin Decker, the research fellow at the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School who gathered the data CNN reviewed, the falsified pages were notably sophisticated.
"What is particularly notable about the relative sophistication of dozens of fabricated Women's March Facebook pages is the co-opting of official images and logos, hashtag hijacking, using pre-existing hashtags such as #womenswave to attract attention to the pages, as well as the localized targeting of urban, suburban, and rural communities across the country," Decker told CNN.
Interesting.
Fakebook has time to take $300,00 from a disabled veteran. Fakebook has time to delete thousands of conservative posts.
But how about deleting 1,700 fake Women’s March Facebook pages?
Ain’t nobody got time for that.
The only way to prosecute them would be from above. Cluster devices would do the job.
The scam part is that there were no events. They were
selling items for fake events which never happened.
Doubtful. Conservatives don’t buy was t-shirts and march.
I don’t know. I’ve always thought we should unplug certain countries until they get serious about internet crime control.
Anyway, I’m sure there are ways to hold their countries responsible.
“They should be prosecuted.”
WHY?? Unless you’re living under a rock, it’s called affiliate marketing. You post links which sells the merchandise and you make a profit. On another note, it’s also called buyer beware if you are not aware of the location of your purchase. Ebay and Amazon states the location and even Alibaba.
Let a million Bernie Madoffs bloom!
Fools and their money...
Ok - even after you told me it took me additional read thru’s... not enough covefefe today...
If you are making public posts of fake events, then you are wasting people’s time and you are guilty of fraud.
You can call it whatever you want, but it’s fraud.
If you are making public posts of fake events, then you are wasting people’s time and you are guilty of fraud.
You can call it whatever you want, but it’s fraud.
Take their money
One just can’t find “Made in the USA” pussy hats any longer. It’s the way of the world. Bring our pussy hat manufacturing jobs back to the US!
If not for fake event Tee-shirts, how will Tiny Tim get his legs mended? How will they feed the slave laborers?
What’s the issue? The left pretends to care about women and these people post pretend women’s marches.
Watch, the Zuck will do a Ken Lay
He he he he (hey, I made a funny!)
For some strange reason I just can’t bring myself to give a sh!t.
If we unplug them, NSA can’t spy on them.
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