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Power city Facebook hacked

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  • 14-06-2024 11:27am
    #1
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,920 ✭✭✭


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    The comments are mostly by bots and the website is “anastorebrasil.com”

    Facebook really has no shame allowing sponsored scammers.



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    #2
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,497 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal



    Powercity Facebook page most certainly has not been hacked, this is just a scam facebook advert.

    Report it (for what its worth), but not seeing the point of this thread as zero hacking has taken place.



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    tohaltuwi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,463 ✭✭✭tohaltuwi


    yeah, an scamming ad, but no hacking per se, as in getting into the system itself and doing mischief inside it.



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    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,950 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    ha ha who is going to think that they would ll get a Smeg kettle for 2 euro.

    It’s about 180.00

    Some eejits will click it



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    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 82,776 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Likely it links to ICantBelieveItsNotPowerCity.com and looks "very sophisticated".



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    Doodah7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    The biggest fools are the ones that actually use Facebook!!



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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,455 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    I saw an ad on FB under the banner of Power City, it was a Marshall speaker for €3. Reported it as a scam and they said it did not breach their 'advertising standards'.

    Another scam was a Leap card with 12 months unlimited travel for €2. Reported that as well, got the same reply.

    Boilerplate (copy & paste) reply to both..

    We didn't remove the ad

    To keep our review process as fair as possible, we use the same Advertising Standards to review reports.We've taken a look and found that this ad doesn't go against our Advertising Standards.

    Post edited by coylemj on


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