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		GoblinSlayer on Sept 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I lost €4k in a Facebook scam He literally buys ads and fell for this scam because it proposed ad credit. Oh, wait, he got what he deserved.

jlarocco on Sept 14, 2020 [–]

I wouldn't go quite that far, but the sense of schadenfreude on reading the article was through the roof.

Spam and web advertising have always been underhanded, and if a person with "15+ years in adtech" can't avoid an ad scam, what does that mean for everybody else?

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