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Bad actors have always been a prevalent issue on the internet.
I’m a freelancer, so I occasionally get served ads for products that promise to simplify taxes.
I also get a bunch of ads for tech products, games, and food.
It’s shocking how easy Facebook has made it for scammers to getpotential ransomwareon your machine.
Perhaps no scam ad is worse than the ones involving celebrities.
These scam ads use the likeness of famous actors and singers to promote their scam services and products.
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These types of celebrity scams have beenan issue for years, but they’re getting worse with AI.
While the aforementioned scam ad didn’t feature adeepfake, I’m sure that even more elaborate scams do.
Since deepfakes now look incredibly convincing, it’s no surprise that people unfortunately fall for these scams.
Since Facebook skews older, it has a large proportion of older people that predatory individuals love to target.
Facebook’sautomated ad review and monitoring systemalso gets trained by manual reviewers, but it obviously sucks at its job.
Also, if something sounds too good to be true, it almost always is.
Always be cautious of fraudsters when you go online.
Stay safe, and don’t trust everything you see!
