The scammers were also able to raise the billing threshold on her ad accounts, allowing them to spend more of Mayse's and her clients' funds. One of those Loni Mayse accounts are not really hers. In another, they added a fake profile utilizing her own name, Loni Mayse, perhaps in an effort to make the duplicate look like a glitch and not an actual separate unauthorized account added to her Business Manager. In one instance, the scammers tried to spoof Facebook support by using a fake customer service email address for the user being added to the account. She explained how their emails and usernames tried to disguise what they were doing.
They also changed the names of the Facebook pages. Mayse says the scammers quickly placed two unauthorized users inside her Facebook Business Manager, which is the backend portal that allows social media managers and marketers to run multiple Facebook Pages and ad accounts from one dashboard. Bypassed every single Facebook security protocol as well." " were in about 10 of my accounts within minutes," she explained in an online conversation with Mashable. "Let's be honest who the fuck wants that?" she said, referring to the product being hawked via ads on a Facebook post describing the nightmare scenario she just went through. The fraudulent ads running on Loni Mayse's Facebook pages were pushing users to this ecommerce store. If you're one of the 10 million Facebook users running ads on the platform, beware of a growing scam ring that's hacking advertisers' accounts, using their credit cards to steal tens of thousands of dollars in Facebook ads, and openly bragging about the money they're making off the scheme right on the platform.ĭigital marketer Loni Mayse knew something was wrong when ten of the Facebook ad accounts she manages started running $15,000 per day ads for what she describes as a "Santa Clause on a stripper pole" Christmas decoration. Scammers are hacking Facebook accounts, running ads with stolen money, and bragging about their fraudulent fortunes right on the social network.