https://211check.org/scam-alert-toyota-is-not-celebrating-its-80th-anniversary/ Fact-checking and Information Verification in South Sudan Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:52:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://211check.org/scam-alert-toyota-is-not-celebrating-its-80th-anniversary/#comment-3919 Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:52:23 +0000 https://211check.org/?p=2540#comment-3919 There are now more than 150 Hilux fan pages on Facebook, with pages published in multiple modern languages. They are all scams and have more than 5 million followers. There is a good deal of content sharing across these pages so that the same competitions are run and the same “winners” appear over and over again. They photos of so-called “winners” – all of which can be shown to be fake – nothing more than images sourced from the Internet to which the scammers add phony names. The real tragedy is that Facebook, which is well aware of the scam, refuses to shut down these pages on the grounds that it doesn’t contravene “community standards”. Facebook should be ashamed of itself for effectively sanctioning these reprehensible and illegal pages.

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