Facebook must be the number #1 platform for frauds and scams. And Meta is doing next to nothing about it. There are tools to report frauds, but their artificial intelligence (or staff) is not smart enough to understand the frauds attempts. These days my Facebook is flooded with AI-generated images of old people (as old as 120 year old) having made their own birthday cake - and thousands of people are falling for it, wishing the non-existing person in the picture happy birthday.
Why is this clearly a fraud attempt?
Well, the comment list itself is a list of thousands of gullible people who are much more likely to be fooled, and so the next step for the scammers should be to contact them directly to engage the next step of the scam: Get their money.
Another thing the scammers might do is to eventually change the content of the post so that it's suddenly about some crypto-scam. It will look like it has a serious following because of all the comments, likes and shares, but these engagements were made on an entirely different premise.
I reported a few of these pics, but it's no point. Meta don't get it and don't know what's going on on their own platform.
The text is consistently the same (except the name and age):
"Hello everyone, I am Jane. I am 120 years old, I made my own birthday cake with peach cream and filling, I started decorating cakes from 5 years old, I love it, and I can’t wait to grow my baking journey"
The oldest person on earth is 117 years old right now (March 2024), and I doubt she's facebooking about her cake baking journey.
All these images are generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). They can look real, but sometimes they really don't.
