Scam adverts on fb claiming to be ocuk

[Noobaside]

Has anyone else seen these ads popping up on fb claiming to be ocuk selling items at up to 95% off

 

[Malevolence]

Bargain, that usually retails for £2,549.99

 

[NoobCannon]

Facebook, lol

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Good to see Facebook hasn't changed the practice even after Martin Lewis has started high court proceedings against them for exactly this.

https://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/...facebook--left-me-shaking--it-s-now-admitted/

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2018/05/martin-lewis-meets-facebook-over-fake-ads/

 

[Spook187]

Dunno, all adverts are blocked on my Facebook so I don't see all this rubbish.

 

[Werewolf]

Cheers for pointing this out, obviously it's fake in case anyone ever had any doubts.

I've alerted some of the store guys who hopefully will be able to get a message to fakebook about it.

@Gibbo @Dave M

 

[Noobaside]

No problem I thought you should be alerted Facebook might actually listen to you guys.

Don't fancy selling me that pc for £57 though do you?

 

[Thekwango]

So how does that scam work, it take you to a false OcUK-a-like website?

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Yes, they take your money and give you nothing.

Read the links I posted from Martin Lewis who is going though the same thing.

There are loads of others on there too, it’s pretty bad but Facebook don’t see themselves as a responsible for the adverts they are selling which is wrong IMO.

 

[Thekwango]

Yes, they take your money and give you nothing.

Read the links I posted from Martin Lewis who is going though the same thing.

There are loads of others on there too, it’s pretty bad but Facebook don’t see themselves as a responsible for the adverts they are selling which is wrong IMO.

Yea I get that they take your ££’s and give you sod all but just curious where clicking on the link takes you to. Is it a website mimicking OcUK’s or just a generic ‘pc for sale’ website.

 

[Noobaside]

It's a clone of the OcUK website let's u buy certain things at a massive "discount" then they do a runner

 

[muon]

Just click on the advert and help drain their advertising budget.

 

[Daftbrown]

Don't fancy selling me that pc for £57 though do you?

This chancer deserves an answer!

 

[cainer]

ordered 20 to re-sell on ebay, no receipt or tracking yet but you gotta be in it to win it

 

[Semple]

Facebook might actually listen to you guys.

Lol you're kidding right? Facebook doesn't even listen to big companies who report fake ads. They just ban the account, and another one pops up.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

ordered 20 to re-sell on ebay, no receipt or tracking yet but you gotta be in it to win it

You sound like a typical member of HotUKDeals

 

[Pants]

Given it has your logo in there it should be very easy for image recognition to pick them all up. That's if Facebook give a damn, which they probably don't.

 

[413x]

So bad on Facebook.

You see these scams all time and people commenting and going through with it. Facebook are responsible for the content they show

 

[Columbo]

So bad on Facebook.

You see these scams all time and people commenting and going through with it. Facebook are responsible for the content they show

Not according to them they aren't, Facebook are a joke in this regard, want all the money but none of the responsibility that comes with it, every change they make to fixing things is smallest possible step they can make by which they can claim to be doing something when actually its little more than nothing.

It's like ITV saying they aren't responsible for the ads they show or a football club saying they aren't responsible for the banners they have around the pitch.

 

[Glanza]

It's Facebook no surprise in the slightest. Sadly even if OCUK report the issue to FB they'll sit on their thumbs and do nothing as they've been paid.