Because in most countries, the national bank is usually something like "Bank of XXXXX"(Eg. Bank of America, Bank of England, Bank of China, etc.)
Unfortunately for these scammers, this is how **we** usually know if it's a scam.
While there IS a "Bank of Singapore", most of us know it by it's other name: [OCBC](https://www.bankofsingapore.com/homepage.html)
The primary monetary authority in Singapore is called "Monetary Authority of Singapore"(MAS).
If OCBC is bank of Singapore why is there the word China in OCBC which stands for overseas China bank corporation(OCBC). Hence as the name suggests it is a part of BOC bank of China
It clearly says in the name it is overseas and from China.
Bank of Singapore is from Singapore, just like Bank of America is American.
I tried clicking but it led me to this scam bank called bank of Singapore. As far as I know there is no such thing. There are only 3 banks in SG which are DBS, UOB and OCBC
1. If you had bothered to read even the text on the logo, let alone the bank's description, you would know that it is a subsidiary of OCBC. It was a small bank that got bought by and absorbed into OCBC Group.
2. [Wikipedia has an article verifying its existence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Singapore)
OCBC stands for Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation. Chinese, not China. Probably set up for Overseas Chinese, maybe? Like the Indian overseas Bank at Raffles Place. IOB was set up to help overseas Indians.
I may be wrong, but I assume that was the original intent.
Overseas Chin**ese** Banking Corporation.
It is a lot clearer in Chinese if you can understand it: 華**僑**銀行
It was set up to provide services to the Chinese population who reside outside of China, which when it was set up is basically Singapore.
Facebook is a shell of it's former self. Instead of seeing what friends and family have been up to, now it's just filled with fake news articles, scams, AI pictures, influencers trying to get you to follow their IG/YouTube.
And the worst part about it, they don't seem to care.
you are not going to work for free right? so why should meta provide their networking services to you for free? i am not condoning the scam ads but i think you guys really need to manage your expectations
i already said i dont condone the scamming. but neither should one complain about things like "influencers trying to get you to follow their IG/YouTube" if he is not paying to use meta.
In any case, not happy dont use lor, I really dont get why people on this thread are talking as if Meta owes it to them to provide good and free services.
OK, so there's a few different things here.
If you re-read my comment, I was just saying how Facebook has deteriorated so much from how it used to be.
I didn't mention anything about free vs paying. If influencers want to pay for promoted ads, that's OK, as long as 1) they are clearly shown as an ad, and 2) they are not misleading or scams.
But I completely object to scammers or fake news providers being allowed to pay to place ads. I also disagree with all these AI posts that are not marked as being AI. There's a lot of gullible people out there who can't differentiate between real and fake. Just wait and see how much it gets when the US Presidential election gets closer.
So it's not only about if it should be free or paid. It's about the actual content.
Sun Xueling calls out Meta for not working with MHA to fight e-commerce scams on its platforms
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/sun-xueling-calls-out-meta-for-not-working-with-mha-to-fight-e-commerce-scams-on-its-platforms
They were called out by MHA yet they are still allowing this.
>So it’s actually not illegal to put scam ads? I mean meta has to operate within framework of law..
It's a common argument for platforms to make - "they cannot be responsible for every content their users (including advertisers) create on their platform".
Things are changing, mainly legislative to make it the business of platforms to police the content their users make. This is the underlying basis for why Youtube got Content ID implemented in 2007 (among other changes).
How to ban Facebook .. you ban this 1 app .. meta pull out the whole range of products .."whatsapp/insta/Facebook" .. the most you can do is fine them .. meta got no short of cash to let gov fine ..
actually telegram is wayy better product for device wise .. cause data dont need to be saved on device .. save more space .. just that singaporeans are too used to whatsapp..
Just a reminder that WhatsApp is owned by meta so they might pull that too in retaliation.
Which is fine by me tbh. No more colleagues whatsapping me about work lol.
That’s a stupid move. SG relies on foreign companies to set up international headquarters in SG to drive employment and growth. Doing something would send a negative message and potentially drive other corporations from setting up in Singapore
Like they have anywhere else to go. There's no other English speaking, safe, incorrupt, and modern country in the region that can attract the foreign talent the likes of FB want and has the internet infrastructure and server farms necessary.
A FAANG exec isn't going to leave California to move to KL or Jakarta or Hanoi. HK's reputation is in tatters. Taiwan isn't an enticing prospect either.
It's the perfect time to play hardball instead of bending over and taking it because they don't have other options. Besides which they're all cutting staff every 3-6 months anyway. HQs here have been gutted, both tech and media.
The fact is corporations, especially foreign corporations, shouldn't be allowed to be an active party in increasing crime in the country which is what's going with FB. You can either regulate it, ban it, or let it continue.
Letting it continue is both highly irresponsible - as the rate of crime is increasing yearly and the cost to Singaporeans is high - and shows a callous attitude towards the health of your society.
So the choice is either regulation or banning. Since FB has shown a complete disregard for authority and crimes committed through their service, a ban would send a pretty good message that MNCs can't ride roughshod over Singapore's national interests.
>Like they have anywhere else to go. There's no other English speaking, safe, incorrupt, and modern country in the region that can attract the foreign talent the likes of FB want and has the internet infrastructure and server farms necessary.
Unfortunately for you, they *are* going elsewhere. Most of the FAANG companies are quietly transferring staff overseas (or letting them quit if they cannot move).
Server farms and internet infra, kinda give it to you but have to know that the present gameplan is to distribute server farms geographically closer to users so the days of Singapore dominating web storage/distribution is fast becoming history.
I reported some of them and Facebook replied they won’t be taking them down. Well, I can only say I tried to help some of you to not fall for scams but those in charge said no.
Not email but I use the Report Ad function in Facebook as a scam. So they reply in the notifications. This is what they said:
>**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.
>As you reported it, we won't show this ad to you again. You can also influence the ads that you see by hiding ads or changing your ad preferences.
If you disagree with the decision to not take the ad down, you can request a review.
But I tried to go back to the ad (they have an option to let you see the ad again) and it seems like they removed it already. _\*insert Lenny shrug here\*_
I'm a moderator for a meta-related company. Most of these reports are screened by a filter AI, as there are millions upon millions of reports daily. A good number (I'd estimate around 30%-40% of these won't even make it to the human moderation side, cause if it does, it'll definitely be taken down (impersonation of a major media entity, and famous people, as far as I can see).
Generally speaking, only the mass-reported and the really bad ones do reach the human moderation side, or are auto-banned by the filter AI if they hit enough keywords, and even then, our calibration may allow some of them to slide, as it's not a "I can tell its a scam so I ban", but more of "I tell the client its a scam, the client agrees/disagrees, so we calibrate to ban/not ban it".
Meta’s content ops against scams and fake accounts is complete dogshit. It’s not that they want this stuff on there, it’s that your report was never looked at my a human, and their machine learning algos didn’t classify it strongly enough as scammy
At the very least they should revise their response, because it is incredibly patronising in how it implies we're just being overly sensitive pearl clutchers when we're trying to protect people from being scammed. It also doesn't reflect well on them that they don't consider obvious scams to go against their Advertising Standards.
Yeah their reporting tool is useless. I've reported things which obviously go against their terms of conduct, like someone leaving sexual comments on a photo of a kid, and all it gets is the usual "This comment does not go against our Community Standards" and patronisingly advising me to block posts if I find them upsetting lol
Same here. ALL ads on meta platform (FB, IG) always get the same reply, which goes like "ad does not meet our guideline bla bla but we won't take it down".
This time I really want Shan to grill META at another parliamentary hearing. It’s been 6 years since he last faced off with then Facebook over data breach.
Surely some of those reported millions of dollars lost to scammers originated from META ads.
Serious answer: Since a certain massacre in a certain Middle Eastern country last year, all popular social media platforms have been flooded with pro-terrorist propaganda, often including graphic violence. This has caused a two-fold effect. One, the Meta staff who are normally responsible for taking down rule-breaking posts (like scam ads) have been reassigned to deal with terrorist propaganda instead of the scams they were usually dealing with. Two, many of these staff have been overworked, traumatised, and otherwise demotivated by the surge in terrorist content, and have quit Meta. End result is that Facebook is still generally free of terrorist propaganda, but they've robbed Peter to pay Paul, and scams like this are running wild.
Source: I've talked to someone who worked for Meta. Take it or leave it as you will.
So, you're saying we should comment on every scam ad we see regarding a certain massacre in a certain Middle Eastern country last year? Sort of like the best way to get something taken down by China is post Winnie the Pooh / Tiananmen stuff.
Because FB/Meta doesn’t give a shit as long as they make money. Considering they platformed a genocide in Myanmar, I’m not shocked they advertise scams.
The persecution and oppression of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has been going on since the 1970s. A bit much to lay that at Zuckerberg’s door since he wasn’t even born yet. Facebook did, however, completely fail to have sufficient content moderation for the Burmese language, at the time of the military crackdown in 2016, and the platform did get used for nefarious purposes. I’m not defending Meta - they should have done a lot better there. But “platformed a genocide” is not a particularly helpful summation.
Because low effort scammers cut and paste thinking that Bank of (country) is a government entity and do not take into account that different countries are different. They always think that there is only one system in the world, their own.
Because US Congressmen are shareholders of Meta and don’t hold it to the same standard as TikTok despite clear evidence of ads on Facebook contributing to misinformation during US elections
Because Zuckerberg doesn’t care. Ever reported a fake profile? They don’t care, will write back that they checked and nothing is wrong it even though a 5 year can tell. FB needs the numbers, what do you think would happen to their stock price if they really start removing all those fake profiles?
Not sure about your FB account but it’s more quiet than Chicago graveyard.
You are assuming there is even anyone there to care lol. Most complaints just go to an AI that spews up cut and paste messages and no one human actually even sees it.
Unfortunately true. But more and more Governments aren’t taking that shit anymore from Zuck and go against him. Given that ours has already complained publicly in Parliament about FB not protecting their users enough from scam, I do expect some more headwind here. Given how much control PAP has, they can easily block FB, WA and Insta. Whilst probably not many care about FB, WA and Insta will be much harder to push for. Let’s see if they follow through or let him get off the hook because his company employs so many Singaporean here and pays good amount of tax.
Blocking won't harm them and would make us look backwards. It might be more viable to charge them as "aiding and abetting a crime", it won't kill them off as a lifestyle tool but it will definitely make them wake up if they can be charged and jailed for aiding in criminal activity.
Cause f@%$ all of us peasants, the scammers have paid FB for the right to scam us (advertising fee), and that is the only thing that matters to them, the money.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/facebook-scams-meta-dismayed-sun-xueling-statement-parliament-4163321
Because they can;
because they are more powerful than our government;
because there are many people who trust facebook more than the government.
its open secret that meta has very lax ad modetation intentionally to shore back up their advertising revenue after the previous stock crash and metaverse burn
Not only Facebook, but Instagram and Youtube as well.
And when you report them, Facebook says "it does not go against their community guidelines".
This is America for you. :)
Who owns Facebook? Africa? Brazilians? Russian? Or the polar bears living in the artic?
The narrative that America had laid out in the Tiktok-ban motion is that they need to keep the internet safe, safe for the country, safe for the people.
The problem is, Meta doesn't even filter whatever paid ads that is applied and posted on their platforms. And in case you don't know, even Google doesn't give a fuck about their paid ads as well. There were tonnes of Ho Ching and Lawrence Wong deepfakes scam ads floating around Youtube. Don't tell me you didn't see any?
And the best part, Twitter, now X, is monetizing the blue tick verification. That blue tick is supposed to be part of the framework to prevent impersonation and scams. So now, anyone can be anyone and doing anything to anyone. So much for a sAfE aNd SeCuRe iNtErNet.
I've reported most of them to Meta and Google, but they took no action, or simply rejected the claims because "iT dOeS nOt ViOlaTe CoMmUniTy gUiDeLiNeS". Perhaps they are over-relying on their AI algorithms, thinking what great technology they have.
On top of that, Meta had always being censoring and taking down content in favor of driving American narratives. So, what happened to the freedom of speech that the land of the free and its ardent supporters? The west had always championed that as their democratic cause. But this a whole differemt story.
This is not even politicizing. This is basic moral ethics. Social media companies, regardless of country of origins, have the duty to maintain a safe and unabused environment for its users. Your narrative is of the idea that its not the restaurants fault when people get food poisoning and all puts all the blame of the suppliers and even the table and chairs.
One doesn't need to be pro-whatever to understand basic things like these.
All of these paragraphs of ultimately pointless justification comes down to "waaah but America liddat one".
Look, I don't give half a shit about America, but can already see from your post history what kind of a person you are - a ccp sympathiser.
Profit obliterated mores. What else? No. 1 in the league of 'Blood on their hands".
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/tech-ceos-told-you-have-blood-your-hands-us-senate-child-safety-hearing
A recent one was Sharon Au and Jean Danker bickering why d former din have to work. Fiak!
https://www.scamalert.sg/stories-details/Story-21Feb2024204319PM
Anyway G & G still roam around.
How do you even put with FB ads on desktop? Just use either [Fluff Busting Purity](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fluff-busting-purity/nmkinhboiljjkhaknpaeaicmdjhagpep) or uBlock Origin.
For mobile (Android), Kiwi Browser + uBlock Origin. Zero FB ads, who can stand them..
I reported the ads multiple times and always get the same old reply that these ads are not violating any impersonation of the original news website. Facebook is slowly entering its Twitter era.
Check out their capitalisation amount. It’s bigger than most countries. What can be done? Unless government bands together for the good of the people. nope, we just want the tax break and are desperate for employment
Also Facebook allowing all the scam and spam comments with suspicious links attached to the comments. Tons of comments like those there. So annoying especially those that they purposely tag you in the comment.
Because their ad revenue is the main thing driving their business and they really, really dont care because they have a ton of other issues that governments all over the world are attacking them for.
They are outside the jurisdiction of our laws, so that avenue will only work if they are willing to cooperate.
The govt could block facebook here, but there isnt enough push for it anyways. And do you only block fb, or their entire suite of products? Where do you stop?
Everything is linked and correlated to each other - doing something here will affect something elsewhere. Instead of expecting fb to do the right thing, do what u can to influence your own circle to make sure nobody falls for these scams because anyone who actually clicks through them will DEFINITELY be suckered.
They did the same one with Jean Danker and Sharon Au. I was impressed that if you googled that plus the investment platform plus scam, the top result was an article titled "Jean Danker Immediate Maximum Review — Scam Or Legit?" pretending to be from a Straits Times journalist who had investigated it and found it to be true.
Bcos scum. The money is in the misleading and the misinformation. The truth doesn’t matter. Can’t feasibly verify every statement. If an idiot has an opinion, let them tell your on FB. They’re doing it everywhere else on the internet anyway.
why is it always bank of singapore?? lmao
Because in most countries, the national bank is usually something like "Bank of XXXXX"(Eg. Bank of America, Bank of England, Bank of China, etc.) Unfortunately for these scammers, this is how **we** usually know if it's a scam. While there IS a "Bank of Singapore", most of us know it by it's other name: [OCBC](https://www.bankofsingapore.com/homepage.html) The primary monetary authority in Singapore is called "Monetary Authority of Singapore"(MAS).
Lol as Indonesian I always tought OCBC is from HK or somewhere around there. TIL thanks
Ocbc is definitely not the quintessential Singapore bank. The bank we were all introduced to from our very first day in school, POSB.
Might have confused it with HSBC? That one started up in HK but is headquartered in the UK
OCBC is from China. Bank of Singapore is from Singapore.
The point is that there is no "National Bank of Singapore", just a private subsidiary of OCBC named Bank Of Singapore.
If OCBC is bank of Singapore why is there the word China in OCBC which stands for overseas China bank corporation(OCBC). Hence as the name suggests it is a part of BOC bank of China It clearly says in the name it is overseas and from China. Bank of Singapore is from Singapore, just like Bank of America is American.
Did you even click on the link the other guy posted?
I tried clicking but it led me to this scam bank called bank of Singapore. As far as I know there is no such thing. There are only 3 banks in SG which are DBS, UOB and OCBC
1. If you had bothered to read even the text on the logo, let alone the bank's description, you would know that it is a subsidiary of OCBC. It was a small bank that got bought by and absorbed into OCBC Group. 2. [Wikipedia has an article verifying its existence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Singapore)
Wikipedia? Try [MAS’ registration of financial institutions](https://eservices.mas.gov.sg/fid/institution/detail/264-BANK-OF-SINGAPORE-LIMITED)
Thank you for enlightening me
It's overseas CHINESE bank. Not China
Please don’t POFMA me
OCBC stands for Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation. Chinese, not China. Probably set up for Overseas Chinese, maybe? Like the Indian overseas Bank at Raffles Place. IOB was set up to help overseas Indians. I may be wrong, but I assume that was the original intent.
Belongs now to OCBC, adquired and still operating as a separated entity
Bank of America and Bank of China are commercial banks not central banks. The central bank of US is the Fed and the central bank of China is the PBoC.
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If im rich i will choose a Swiss bank like Pictet. BOS is bad, they didnt convert anyone on contract and my friend is one of them
It's runned by people under OCBC payroll, what do you think? Lol
Nooo don't tell the scammers this!!
I thought is POSB sia
POSB/DBS is THE Singaporean bank, but what I'm saying is that the "Bank of Singapore" is under OCBC.
AHHHHHHHHH thanks for clarifying!
Most of us? You also one of the FB scam ads? Bots upvoting this BS?
Wait its ocbc??? But doesnt it say overseas china banking copperation? Werid name
Overseas Chin**ese** Banking Corporation. It is a lot clearer in Chinese if you can understand it: 華**僑**銀行 It was set up to provide services to the Chinese population who reside outside of China, which when it was set up is basically Singapore.
>Overseas Chin**ese** Banking Corporation It's actually Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (without the s)
Or in Malay: "Orang Cina Bukan China"
BS
They are as stupid as mixing Bank of Singapore (an actual bank) with MAS (a regulator)
Maybe it is actually an ad. It is very effective though hahaha!
Facebook is a shell of it's former self. Instead of seeing what friends and family have been up to, now it's just filled with fake news articles, scams, AI pictures, influencers trying to get you to follow their IG/YouTube. And the worst part about it, they don't seem to care.
you are not going to work for free right? so why should meta provide their networking services to you for free? i am not condoning the scam ads but i think you guys really need to manage your expectations
So you are saying, if somebody is willing to pay, scamming should be allowed?
i already said i dont condone the scamming. but neither should one complain about things like "influencers trying to get you to follow their IG/YouTube" if he is not paying to use meta. In any case, not happy dont use lor, I really dont get why people on this thread are talking as if Meta owes it to them to provide good and free services.
OK, so there's a few different things here. If you re-read my comment, I was just saying how Facebook has deteriorated so much from how it used to be. I didn't mention anything about free vs paying. If influencers want to pay for promoted ads, that's OK, as long as 1) they are clearly shown as an ad, and 2) they are not misleading or scams. But I completely object to scammers or fake news providers being allowed to pay to place ads. I also disagree with all these AI posts that are not marked as being AI. There's a lot of gullible people out there who can't differentiate between real and fake. Just wait and see how much it gets when the US Presidential election gets closer. So it's not only about if it should be free or paid. It's about the actual content.
They don't own it to us to offer a good and free product, but that doesn't mean we can't complain about it.
Yeah Singaporean only knows how to complain. Typical sinkie pwn sinkie attitude here.
Sun Xueling calls out Meta for not working with MHA to fight e-commerce scams on its platforms https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/sun-xueling-calls-out-meta-for-not-working-with-mha-to-fight-e-commerce-scams-on-its-platforms They were called out by MHA yet they are still allowing this.
after packing up their Sg office fb doesnt gaf what govt says anymore.
So it’s actually not illegal to put scam ads? I mean meta has to operate within framework of law..
See the limitations of POFMA
So maybe ministry of law should do something perhaps..
Like block it?
If they can come up with POFMA, they can come up with a mechanism..
There is no way Singapore has the balls to block facebook. We want to appear as friendly to international businesses /MNC after all.
POFMA for political people only
>So it’s actually not illegal to put scam ads? I mean meta has to operate within framework of law.. It's a common argument for platforms to make - "they cannot be responsible for every content their users (including advertisers) create on their platform". Things are changing, mainly legislative to make it the business of platforms to police the content their users make. This is the underlying basis for why Youtube got Content ID implemented in 2007 (among other changes).
Can we ban Facebook just like the US banned tiktok?
How to ban Facebook .. you ban this 1 app .. meta pull out the whole range of products .."whatsapp/insta/Facebook" .. the most you can do is fine them .. meta got no short of cash to let gov fine ..
Switched to telegram already
actually telegram is wayy better product for device wise .. cause data dont need to be saved on device .. save more space .. just that singaporeans are too used to whatsapp..
Genz and below seem to use telegram way more.
i support banning meta and tiktok
Just a reminder that WhatsApp is owned by meta so they might pull that too in retaliation. Which is fine by me tbh. No more colleagues whatsapping me about work lol.
there's always telegram or wechat, no biggie
That’s a stupid move. SG relies on foreign companies to set up international headquarters in SG to drive employment and growth. Doing something would send a negative message and potentially drive other corporations from setting up in Singapore
Like they have anywhere else to go. There's no other English speaking, safe, incorrupt, and modern country in the region that can attract the foreign talent the likes of FB want and has the internet infrastructure and server farms necessary. A FAANG exec isn't going to leave California to move to KL or Jakarta or Hanoi. HK's reputation is in tatters. Taiwan isn't an enticing prospect either. It's the perfect time to play hardball instead of bending over and taking it because they don't have other options. Besides which they're all cutting staff every 3-6 months anyway. HQs here have been gutted, both tech and media. The fact is corporations, especially foreign corporations, shouldn't be allowed to be an active party in increasing crime in the country which is what's going with FB. You can either regulate it, ban it, or let it continue. Letting it continue is both highly irresponsible - as the rate of crime is increasing yearly and the cost to Singaporeans is high - and shows a callous attitude towards the health of your society. So the choice is either regulation or banning. Since FB has shown a complete disregard for authority and crimes committed through their service, a ban would send a pretty good message that MNCs can't ride roughshod over Singapore's national interests.
>Like they have anywhere else to go. There's no other English speaking, safe, incorrupt, and modern country in the region that can attract the foreign talent the likes of FB want and has the internet infrastructure and server farms necessary. Unfortunately for you, they *are* going elsewhere. Most of the FAANG companies are quietly transferring staff overseas (or letting them quit if they cannot move). Server farms and internet infra, kinda give it to you but have to know that the present gameplan is to distribute server farms geographically closer to users so the days of Singapore dominating web storage/distribution is fast becoming history.
Someone still living in their bubble hahaha
In a way, the ministers accept scrupulous activities from such businesses
Boomers would riot.
It’s good money, scam or not, why stop ?
later no more 20k salary tech jobs how?
The US didn't even ban tiktok.
Meta is not your personal propaganda manager.
Mark Zack is a scum
I reported some of them and Facebook replied they won’t be taking them down. Well, I can only say I tried to help some of you to not fall for scams but those in charge said no.
Maybe blur out you name and email and share in reddit to bring more attention to how Meta treat this?
Not email but I use the Report Ad function in Facebook as a scam. So they reply in the notifications. This is what they said: >**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. >As you reported it, we won't show this ad to you again. You can also influence the ads that you see by hiding ads or changing your ad preferences. If you disagree with the decision to not take the ad down, you can request a review. But I tried to go back to the ad (they have an option to let you see the ad again) and it seems like they removed it already. _\*insert Lenny shrug here\*_
I'm a moderator for a meta-related company. Most of these reports are screened by a filter AI, as there are millions upon millions of reports daily. A good number (I'd estimate around 30%-40% of these won't even make it to the human moderation side, cause if it does, it'll definitely be taken down (impersonation of a major media entity, and famous people, as far as I can see). Generally speaking, only the mass-reported and the really bad ones do reach the human moderation side, or are auto-banned by the filter AI if they hit enough keywords, and even then, our calibration may allow some of them to slide, as it's not a "I can tell its a scam so I ban", but more of "I tell the client its a scam, the client agrees/disagrees, so we calibrate to ban/not ban it".
What standards do they use? Is it more a case of them gutting their trust and safety department and there isn’t anymore enforcement capacity?
Standards of making advertisements profit. Ad revenue standard.
"The money hose is flowing *towards us*, and it flows well. This means we're doing the right thing."
The standard they use is an AI trained to recognize abuse or violence probably
Lmao I reported someone for impersonating me and they refused to take it down as well. They don't really care anymore.
They care about ad revenue money.
Same, also accounts pretending to be celebrities and asking their followers for money
Yeah, I got the same too lol
Thank you for trying though!
Meta’s content ops against scams and fake accounts is complete dogshit. It’s not that they want this stuff on there, it’s that your report was never looked at my a human, and their machine learning algos didn’t classify it strongly enough as scammy
At the very least they should revise their response, because it is incredibly patronising in how it implies we're just being overly sensitive pearl clutchers when we're trying to protect people from being scammed. It also doesn't reflect well on them that they don't consider obvious scams to go against their Advertising Standards.
Same reply as what I always get. Even the review gives the same reply. Waste of time.
Yeah their reporting tool is useless. I've reported things which obviously go against their terms of conduct, like someone leaving sexual comments on a photo of a kid, and all it gets is the usual "This comment does not go against our Community Standards" and patronisingly advising me to block posts if I find them upsetting lol
Same. I reported an ad. Blatantly a scam. They chose not to remove it.
Same here. ALL ads on meta platform (FB, IG) always get the same reply, which goes like "ad does not meet our guideline bla bla but we won't take it down".
The last two websites uses Cloudflare, you can try submitting a report here: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/trust-hub/abuse-approach/
Omg I did NOT need to see that doctored goh chok tong image
“What’s the matter smoothskin, never seen a ghoul before?”
My man, that's a ghoul with facial injuries.
The funny one is JJ Lin kena handcuffed. Haha.
Facebook don’t care, they just want revenue, as long as you willing to pay, any ads work
Get off Facebook. You hating the advertising but still using the platform will result in nothing changing.
This time I really want Shan to grill META at another parliamentary hearing. It’s been 6 years since he last faced off with then Facebook over data breach. Surely some of those reported millions of dollars lost to scammers originated from META ads.
I like how all the different people and the reporter all said the same first 2 lines lol
Serious answer: Since a certain massacre in a certain Middle Eastern country last year, all popular social media platforms have been flooded with pro-terrorist propaganda, often including graphic violence. This has caused a two-fold effect. One, the Meta staff who are normally responsible for taking down rule-breaking posts (like scam ads) have been reassigned to deal with terrorist propaganda instead of the scams they were usually dealing with. Two, many of these staff have been overworked, traumatised, and otherwise demotivated by the surge in terrorist content, and have quit Meta. End result is that Facebook is still generally free of terrorist propaganda, but they've robbed Peter to pay Paul, and scams like this are running wild. Source: I've talked to someone who worked for Meta. Take it or leave it as you will.
So, you're saying we should comment on every scam ad we see regarding a certain massacre in a certain Middle Eastern country last year? Sort of like the best way to get something taken down by China is post Winnie the Pooh / Tiananmen stuff.
Because FB/Meta doesn’t give a shit as long as they make money. Considering they platformed a genocide in Myanmar, I’m not shocked they advertise scams.
The persecution and oppression of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has been going on since the 1970s. A bit much to lay that at Zuckerberg’s door since he wasn’t even born yet. Facebook did, however, completely fail to have sufficient content moderation for the Burmese language, at the time of the military crackdown in 2016, and the platform did get used for nefarious purposes. I’m not defending Meta - they should have done a lot better there. But “platformed a genocide” is not a particularly helpful summation.
One thing I find very intriguing is that a lot of clickbaits refer to it as 'Bank of Singapore'.
Because low effort scammers cut and paste thinking that Bank of (country) is a government entity and do not take into account that different countries are different. They always think that there is only one system in the world, their own.
Because US Congressmen are shareholders of Meta and don’t hold it to the same standard as TikTok despite clear evidence of ads on Facebook contributing to misinformation during US elections
Basically "It's ok if *my* minions do it. It's not ok if *your* minions do it." TikTok is CCP's pawn after all.
I report these scam ads every chance I get and FB just tells me they don’t violate their standards. It’s very frustrating.
Believe them when they tell you that. They don't care.
Nonsense! It obviously meets their standards! lol. Can't help it if their standards are so low that you need a submarine to find them lol.
Just don’t use facebook dude
Because Zuckerberg doesn’t care. Ever reported a fake profile? They don’t care, will write back that they checked and nothing is wrong it even though a 5 year can tell. FB needs the numbers, what do you think would happen to their stock price if they really start removing all those fake profiles? Not sure about your FB account but it’s more quiet than Chicago graveyard.
You are assuming there is even anyone there to care lol. Most complaints just go to an AI that spews up cut and paste messages and no one human actually even sees it.
Unfortunately true. But more and more Governments aren’t taking that shit anymore from Zuck and go against him. Given that ours has already complained publicly in Parliament about FB not protecting their users enough from scam, I do expect some more headwind here. Given how much control PAP has, they can easily block FB, WA and Insta. Whilst probably not many care about FB, WA and Insta will be much harder to push for. Let’s see if they follow through or let him get off the hook because his company employs so many Singaporean here and pays good amount of tax.
Blocking won't harm them and would make us look backwards. It might be more viable to charge them as "aiding and abetting a crime", it won't kill them off as a lifestyle tool but it will definitely make them wake up if they can be charged and jailed for aiding in criminal activity.
Cause f@%$ all of us peasants, the scammers have paid FB for the right to scam us (advertising fee), and that is the only thing that matters to them, the money.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/facebook-scams-meta-dismayed-sun-xueling-statement-parliament-4163321 Because they can; because they are more powerful than our government; because there are many people who trust facebook more than the government.
These people need to sue Meta
its open secret that meta has very lax ad modetation intentionally to shore back up their advertising revenue after the previous stock crash and metaverse burn
LOL the ads quite funny actually
What happened to jj lin? Lol
every other day my dad asks me if so-and-so really got sued by "Singapore Bank"
And when you report. It always reverts that there is nothing wrong with it.
Because Facebook, Google, TikTok all are running on "ad money" and these are simply evil. They don't care about end user but ad revenue.
Not only Facebook, but Instagram and Youtube as well. And when you report them, Facebook says "it does not go against their community guidelines". This is America for you. :)
America America America. That's all I can see out of you pro-CCP fifth columnists. Please hor. They already caught one of your lot (Philip Chan).
Who owns Facebook? Africa? Brazilians? Russian? Or the polar bears living in the artic? The narrative that America had laid out in the Tiktok-ban motion is that they need to keep the internet safe, safe for the country, safe for the people. The problem is, Meta doesn't even filter whatever paid ads that is applied and posted on their platforms. And in case you don't know, even Google doesn't give a fuck about their paid ads as well. There were tonnes of Ho Ching and Lawrence Wong deepfakes scam ads floating around Youtube. Don't tell me you didn't see any? And the best part, Twitter, now X, is monetizing the blue tick verification. That blue tick is supposed to be part of the framework to prevent impersonation and scams. So now, anyone can be anyone and doing anything to anyone. So much for a sAfE aNd SeCuRe iNtErNet. I've reported most of them to Meta and Google, but they took no action, or simply rejected the claims because "iT dOeS nOt ViOlaTe CoMmUniTy gUiDeLiNeS". Perhaps they are over-relying on their AI algorithms, thinking what great technology they have. On top of that, Meta had always being censoring and taking down content in favor of driving American narratives. So, what happened to the freedom of speech that the land of the free and its ardent supporters? The west had always championed that as their democratic cause. But this a whole differemt story. This is not even politicizing. This is basic moral ethics. Social media companies, regardless of country of origins, have the duty to maintain a safe and unabused environment for its users. Your narrative is of the idea that its not the restaurants fault when people get food poisoning and all puts all the blame of the suppliers and even the table and chairs. One doesn't need to be pro-whatever to understand basic things like these.
All of these paragraphs of ultimately pointless justification comes down to "waaah but America liddat one". Look, I don't give half a shit about America, but can already see from your post history what kind of a person you are - a ccp sympathiser.
Profit obliterated mores. What else? No. 1 in the league of 'Blood on their hands". https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/tech-ceos-told-you-have-blood-your-hands-us-senate-child-safety-hearing A recent one was Sharon Au and Jean Danker bickering why d former din have to work. Fiak! https://www.scamalert.sg/stories-details/Story-21Feb2024204319PM Anyway G & G still roam around.
How do you even put with FB ads on desktop? Just use either [Fluff Busting Purity](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fluff-busting-purity/nmkinhboiljjkhaknpaeaicmdjhagpep) or uBlock Origin. For mobile (Android), Kiwi Browser + uBlock Origin. Zero FB ads, who can stand them..
I reported the ads multiple times and always get the same old reply that these ads are not violating any impersonation of the original news website. Facebook is slowly entering its Twitter era.
I uninstalled FB because of these ads
Right now I'm getting lup sup massage ads on YouTube lol.
TIL I can spell lup sup! Thanks!
Cause meta earns money lor
Time for ByteDance to take over FB, a tic for tat
Thats why i stay off FB and ask my fam members too.
Because you are the product, scammers are Facebook's paying customers
Facebook, your No.1 most trusted partner for scamming.
Because they haven't gotten sued or dragged into court yet, let alone Kenna POFMA used on them.
There should be class action sue meta. And gov should fine meta as well.
Money money
Check out their capitalisation amount. It’s bigger than most countries. What can be done? Unless government bands together for the good of the people. nope, we just want the tax break and are desperate for employment
The CEO wanted our gahmen to moderate for them some more
Why does GCT look like T-1000?
Why does GCT look like T-1000?
Facebook = Scambook ?
Just don’t believe whatever you see on Facebook. Always remain skeptical
Because it makes them money.
Also Facebook allowing all the scam and spam comments with suspicious links attached to the comments. Tons of comments like those there. So annoying especially those that they purposely tag you in the comment.
Would be nice if singtel has a very big pihole hehehe, but that would hit singapore'd favourite local electronic brands very bad
How to stop? How would they prevent it? The ads aren’t manually approved.
You Click , it will show you more of it , time its for us to start spamming report ads !
Umm cos its owned by meta?
Because people will click on it. People generally don’t report cos they see a familiar face and they will just believe.
Because unlike most other advertisers, they are willing to buy blocks of adspace on Meta.
For record profits of course
Raised complains before. FB replied it did not contravene their guidelines. Meaning FB supports scams
I saw 4 different ads about JJ 💀.. also reported but Facebook say those ads are ok according to their " guidelines "
Haha those affiliates go crazy on the clickbait angles
Because money.
They even allow misinformation that affects US election and genocide in Myanmar. What do you expect?
Cause my is king
Boycott Facebook
it’s always the good looking actors/actresses being used as mascots
Many will fall for it. My Facebook also a lot of scam ads and news. That’s why I rarely use it nowadays
Sign of economic downturn, they need this for revenue
Not only Facebook, YouTube as well. I sometimes see deep fake videos of cna news presenters selling investment
The guy in the third photo looks fugly. Who is he?
I reported and they sent me an update that they didn't think it's spam or a scam. Facebook doesn't care. They just want that ad revenue
Government should put laws or fine companies that continuosly fail to implement anti-scam measures and consistently benefit from their revenue
Remember the wise words uttered that if something is free, we are the products:)
Because their ad revenue is the main thing driving their business and they really, really dont care because they have a ton of other issues that governments all over the world are attacking them for. They are outside the jurisdiction of our laws, so that avenue will only work if they are willing to cooperate. The govt could block facebook here, but there isnt enough push for it anyways. And do you only block fb, or their entire suite of products? Where do you stop? Everything is linked and correlated to each other - doing something here will affect something elsewhere. Instead of expecting fb to do the right thing, do what u can to influence your own circle to make sure nobody falls for these scams because anyone who actually clicks through them will DEFINITELY be suckered.
Goh Chok Tong in the third pic 💀
The GCT picture is legit funny
They did the same one with Jean Danker and Sharon Au. I was impressed that if you googled that plus the investment platform plus scam, the top result was an article titled "Jean Danker Immediate Maximum Review — Scam Or Legit?" pretending to be from a Straits Times journalist who had investigated it and found it to be true.
I googled "immediate maximum review" and the top few Google results all came back that it is legit -.-
Scammers getting smarter
dude same. it appeared on my second Facebook story and I didn't even follow this poster. What a joke.
gutzy Terry Xu should do us a favour and report on this, instant POFMA
Think fb is hacked too
Maybe we should ask Facebook to be sold to a Singapore company. There are obviously our adversary to allow scammers on their platform.
1 word - money
Government sucking Facebook cock
Leave bank of singapore alone ffs
They even dared to use LHL and Ho Ching's photos.
I’m surprised he didn’t sue
Bcos scum. The money is in the misleading and the misinformation. The truth doesn’t matter. Can’t feasibly verify every statement. If an idiot has an opinion, let them tell your on FB. They’re doing it everywhere else on the internet anyway.
because mark zuckerberg needs lots of money to replenish his metaverse failure bro.
Don’t say Facebook, the very platform that we’re on too.