Deleted Facebook Cybercrime Groups Had 300,000 Members

ronjor · Apr 16, 2018

Hours after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity, Facebook last week deleted almost 120 private discussion groups totaling more than 300,000 members who flagrantly promoted a host of illicit activities on the social media network’s platform. The scam groups facilitated a broad spectrum of shady activities, including spamming, wire fraud, account takeovers, phony tax refunds, 419 scams, denial-of-service attack-for-hire services and botnet creation tools. The average age of these groups on Facebook’s platform was two years.
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/deleted-facebook-cybercrime-groups-had-300000-members/

EASTER · Apr 16, 2018

Fb allowed all that to fester for quite a spell. Good to see they finally got called out and now must take some action, or responsibility.

Such platforms obviously have a habit of taking on a life of it's own (out-of-reach) when allowed to run absolute rampant n unchecked by it's controllers.

Dermot7 · Apr 8, 2019

Almost exactly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity reported that a mere two hours of searching revealed more than 100 Facebook groups with some 300,000 members openly advertising services to support all types of cybercrime, including spam, credit card fraud and identity theft. Facebook responded by deleting those groups. Last week, a similar analysis led to the takedown of 74 cybercrime groups operating openly on Facebook with more than 385,000 members.
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/a-year-later-cybercrime-groups-still-rampant-on-facebook/

Here also, sorry.

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