A world scam campaign on Facebook. This is revealed by an investigation by the Spanish media Damn.es published on July 16. Specialized in the field of misinformation, discovered 1,075 pages that use the identity of public transport services in 746 cities and regions of the world between July 2024 and July 2025.
Phishing scam with the same ploy. The pages pretend to be local public transport services that offer transport cards at very low prices. Behind these attractive offers, the Crooks seek to redirect users to fake sites where they are invited to enter their bank card number to steal them.
140 interested French cities
In total, 60 different countries were the objective of this Senegal Phishing Network in Kazakhstan. But the most objective are France, Spain, the United Kingdom and Italy, a country where the Spanish media have detected the largest number of false pages.
In the case of France, 234 usurpations were identified, with respect to 140 cities and 5 regions, reveals liberation. Some of these pages are called “Public Transport in Lyon” or “Public Transport in Bordeaux.” They offer contests to win “6 months of travel almost free, for only € 1.95”.
The scam campaign is also global for the site of its authors, the pages are administered for more than 30 different countries. Schools are often based on Vietnam and Russia. Others are found in Ukraine, Bangladesh and the United States.
Even so, according to the Spanish media, the target advertising system played a key role in these scams. Because several of these false pages have greatly disseminated their fraudulent publications with paid ads while they had few subscribers. Ads equivalent to more than 9,000 on Facebook and Instagram.
If at least an advertising in 55% of these pages has been eliminated by violation of the target advertising rules, all false pages can still be accessed in July, Damn Damn. And the reports of these fraudulent publications have not been useful. Although the media had reported 58 about Spain in June, as part of the first part of their survey, 93% was still online a week later, and 98% of the pages were still active.
Source: BFM TV
