HACKER Q&A
📣 sschueller

Why does Facebook not have a way to report a scammer?


In the facebook report options there is no way to report a scammer, you can report fake account, fake name. However if you report a scammer using a fake photo and name you get a response that the account does not violate community guidelines. Meanwhile that account continues to get new victims.


  👤 nusl Accepted Answer ✓
Facebook does not and will not care about anything or anyone under any circumstance unless it has a viable negative impact on their zuck bucks. This being via fines in law, lawsuits, or other. You’re SOL. Facebook doesn’t give a fuck about you, or me, or anyone. They give a fuck about your data but only to a point, and they already have that.

Try signing up for a new account today. Very high chance your account will instantly be locked and require verification with an ID or other.

Best thing to do is drop the hellhole that is Facebook and spare some of your sanity in the process.

If they want your data but you avoid them anyway, they’re more than likely going to be able to scrape a whole bunch of it from your friends that sign up and share their contact lists and messages and photos. That’s super fun, right?


👤 LinuxBender
Why does Facebook not have a way to report a scammer?

Don't know. I've met their security team. They seem like decent people but AFAIK they only protect FB itself.

Give ic3 a shot [1]. If that goes nowhere and you are certain the scammers are making money and if they are in the US, then also let the IRS know [2]. Criminals have to pay taxes on their ill gotten gains. If that goes nowhere give Kitboga something to do. [3] The more relevant logs, screenshots, email headers, URL's you have the better. Wrap it up in a nice package with a bow.

[1] - https://www.ic3.gov/Home/ComplaintChoice [FBI]

[2] - https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation [IRS]

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow/videos [videos]


👤 joshxyz
They don't give a flying fuck lol.

To be fair though, their marketplace is like craigslist level. But on Amazon.com where the transaction goes through them, they still have problems with fraudulent scams and reviews.

It's ond of the world's toughest problems imo.


👤 YaBa
They don't care. Scammers are just numbers like everyone else. What matters is the numbers and generated traffic so that they can charge for ad prints, who cares if they're real people, cats, dogs, bots or scammers.

👤 jethronethro
Because Facebook is in the business of Facebook, not protecting its users.

👤 KomoD
Yep, they don't care