These “great” deals on Facebook are not from Amazon, Rolex or Nordstrom – Tom’s Guide

(Image credit: Shutterstock) If you’ve recently been tempted by a great looking advertisement on Facebook, keep scrolling. According to Cybernews, a large network of more than 4,000 domains have been impersonating dozens of popular brands in order to run fake ads across the social media site in order to tempt visitors to check out their scam websites. The aim of these threat actors is to steal money, or payment details, or both. Threat analysts at Silent Push have dubbed these scammers “GhostVendors” because they’ve discovered a way to circumvent Meta’s policy in order to cover their tracks. According to the researchers, the threat actors run their scam ads through Facebook Marketplace ads. “Meta’s policy dictates that any other types of ads are only saved while those ads are part of active campaigns.” That means that once the fake campaign ends, all proof of the scams vanish. Like any other “too good to be true” style scam, the ones in this network of thousands of websites promote very, very low prices on popular products in order to tempt victims and unwary online shoppers. Silent Push found the threat actors to be impersonating high profile brands like Amazon, Costco, Lowe’s, Crocs, Duluth
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