Facebook sues Vietnamese group and California marketing firm for ad scams

Facebook sues Vietnamese group and California marketing firm for ad scams
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30 June 2021
Facebook is suing a group of individuals based in Vietnam and a California marketing company. The social media giant said in a blog post that the Vietnam-based group of individuals allegedly got users to "self-compromise their Facebook accounts and ran millions of dollars of unauthorised ads". Meanwhile, Facebook alleged that the California marketing company and its agents were responsible for a bait-and-switch advertising scheme on its platform.
Facebook's director of platform enforcement and litigation, Jessica Romero, said the four individuals in Vietnam used a technique known as "cookie theft" or "session theft" to compromise accounts of employees of advertising and marketing agencies and then ran unauthorised ads. The blog post claimed that victims were misled into self-compromising their accounts by installing a mobile app from the Google Play Store known as "Ad Manager for Facebook". While the app has since been removed, Romero said it prompted users to share their Facebook login credentials and other information, which was then used to access their Facebook accounts and run ads. In some cases, these ads also promoted online scams.

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