Scam alert.

I saw this on Facebook just now. Thought something was not right about it. Clicked through to get a better idea of what that might be.

The website they made is a click-scam that will try to download malware. Dressed up as a front end to clinical trials.

Facebook is happy to allow these scams to run because they get paid each time someone clicks. They don't care. It should be illegal what Facebook is doing. I hate everything about that website.

#ScamAlert #FacebookScam #FakeAds

If I can spot these scams, so can Facebook. They just choose to ignore it.

There is a duty of care they are ignoring here. So many of their "customers" are poorly equipped to realise when they're being led down the garden path.

Last year it was wall to wall crypto scams. I didn't let this one roll far enough to see what the attack angle was. I will say this, they are working harder to build the fake landing pages. Not just badly photoshopped TV celebs this time.

@ewen customers are paying #Facebook to invite users into dark design patterns.

Itโ€™s turtles, all the way down.

@paninid

Bonus points for the reference to infinite regression!

@ewen

This just by design. Failed leadership is the issue. Business models being exposed is all it is right now.

There are SO many cases open right now about the domestic terrorist company. Literally 40+ states AG in the USA have open cases about a TON of this as well as Europe.

Checkout https://noyb.eu for the EU stuff.

NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday

Noyb - European Center for Digital Rights is a non-profit organization based in Vienna, Austria.

noyb.eu

@ewen

Hmmm... Did your computer start to act slower after visiting this site? ๐Ÿค”

I can tell you their DNS for this host resolves in 1ms, which is.. super fast.

Some odd... Files also found.

Your intuition is correct.

Further investigations... I would say so.

Citations:

DNS:
ยน https://www.digwebinterface.com/output/f1d7dcce36704d5f90a4215588e1a5c2.txt

VirusTotal:
ยฒ https://www.virustotal.com/graph/embed/g289a30aedfdc460a8a8b326d352cbbc33564bf54e0dc465984b5dac3626ca3c1

@ewen THANKS FOR SHARING. THIS IS WHY I RARELY GO ON FAKEBOOK ANYMORE.