Fuel shortages are a potential gold mine for online scammers. For several days, Facebook has been awash with pages promoting fuel cards, supposedly to allow for much cheaper gasoline. As explained in a first article published in Tech&Co on October 13, these scams generally allow the personal or banking data of those affected to be stolen.
This Friday, F told Tech&Co that he had removed several pages and ads, including those mentioned in our article. Similarly, the social network promises to continue with this work of repression.
In practice, it is visibly more complicated since many pages were still active, this Friday October 14, and offer the same fuel card scam. Some, very easy to find, have been online for 15 days.
The crackdown on scams on social networks and in particular on Facebook is a sea snake for platforms that have all the difficulty in the world to react quickly to obvious violations of their rules. Even when it comes to your own ads.
In the case of the fake fuel card scam, it is imperative that you never click on one of these pages and never click on any links they may contain to enter personal information.
Source: BFM TV
