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When I said that I think about ad fraud every day for the last 10 yrs, there is no exaggeration. Yesterday was no exception. At a farmers’ market, I saw blueberries and strawberries for sale. Then I thought about ad fraud, and what a simple lesson this could be for buyers of digital ads.

Another challenge is the complexity involved in the reporting tools online.   | Photo Credit: AFP Facebook and Google may be particularly attractive to scammers as the algorithms tend to recommend similar content, prompting users to view similar ads if they clicked on one scam ad, the survey noted. (Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.) Google, Facebook, and other platforms are hosts to fraudulent advertisements, and rely on users reporting scams to stop them. But two in five users online don’t report these ...

Group-IB unearths Facebook Messenger scam run using fake ads Scamsters registered Facebook accounts with names mimicking the real app with minor spelling differences—Messanger, Meseenger, Masssengar—and using the Facebook Messenger official logo as their profile picture. Synopsis Cybercriminals harvested users’ login credentials by baiting them through ads that purportedly promoted a fake update for Facebook Messenger, Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Group-IB says. Researchers at Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Group-IB say that cybercriminals harvested users’ login credentials ...

There's no such thing as bad advertisement? Well... This post will put this thought to the test. The ads we're going to show you today range from brutally honest to honestly brutal, and everything in between—they are anything but what the ad commissioners would ask for. The people at the Design Crowd, a platform for amateur photo editors to share their works, have put their skills to the test in a contest where they had to create bad ads. The theme produced hundreds of submissions over several iterations, and we have gathered some of the best ones that we could find.