Some more scammy facebook ads for you to look at and ask yourself ‘Why do facebook do this?’
Today’s facebook jackpot (and please notice how the sites that two of these ads lead to don’t even bear any resemblance to the ad!):
1) Facebook’s own ad for its ads! This is the only one here where the landing page even vaguely resembles the ad! Do you think it makes good economic sense to put your own ads into your lucrative advertising real estate? Not unless you’re having trouble selling the ad space.
2) Part Time Job Vacancies…leads to: ‘Latest Hong Kong Jobs’. Riiiight. Smothered in Google Ads (hey, money for facebook AND Google!) and put together with a bland, free WordPress template. Who are these people? Hmmm? What are these ‘jobs’? Hmmm? Do they even exist? Probably not. But if they do, they probably exist in some other public recruitment site and have just been, ah, borrowed.
Purpose of the site? To make AdSense revenue.
3) £85 / Hour Job leads to: Jack’s Best Jobs Review, yet another ‘Make $1000s every month with my unique Google-system’ thrown-together blog sites. The last one of these I did a quick check on used testimonials that were re-used on another 3, supposedly different ‘Google system’ sites. Too lazy even to try to write unique fake testimonials. Doh.
I find it hilarious that facebook pays 150 people to edit out ‘obscene’ pictures (bums and tits, usually) from peoples’ photo albums yet seems to employ nobody at all to edit out the scammers from its advertisers. Why is that?
You’d be forgive for coming to the conclusion that it’s because facebook are just happy to make the money, no matter who these advertisers exploit or how they do it – so long as it’s legal. If you’re interested in an insight into the way a typical scammy facebook advertiser works, check out this guy’s post (from late 2007).
Have you ever stopped to think what a ‘Payday loan’ company actually does? Lends money to desperate people and then charges 2,500+ % interest on it. Legal. Yes. Exploitation? You decide.
How about all these ‘Make £7,000 a month with my guaranteed Google scheme’ ads? The simplest bit of research shows these things are rip-offs. As anyone with any critical faculties can see from the outset.
Facebook has created a crop of uncritical, often naiive and vulnerable people for its exploitative advertisers and affiliate marketers to harvest. So long as facebook takes money from businesses which are clearly rip-offs that will be continue to be the only conclusion I can draw.
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