The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: Have you ever been scammed by an advertisement on Facebook?
Talk about it….
Nope. Don’t do Facebook and I like it that way. The wife does but has never been scammed.
No, but I don’t Facebook. My wife made an account for me 15 years ago or so and I think I logged on three times. I deleted the account 3 years ago. I want nothing to do with that company.
FACEBOOK is the scam
you give over all your information and contacts to someone who you know is going to share it with companies and make a profit
so I guess not a scam
just people not concerned with playing their life out online
as others make money off of them
used to be called the mafia …..
ever wonder how target and Walmart get hacked ….???
your information along with millions of others is bought
and it gives them infinite time and access to slide in and hack the real money all with your legit access information …..
they then get not only your bank info but the stores as well if successful
enjoy
With Google Ads you can get scammed anywhere, even here on Claycord, so keep up the ole “if it’s too good to be true…” and you should be fine.
2 years ago when zuckerberg testified in front of congress, he said that Facebook tracks 14,000, yes fourteen thousand, points of data on every man woman and child on earth, that DO NOT have a Facebook account.
They track way more data points for everyone who does.
That’s ridiculous.
Just go look on wiki Corp at all of the acquisitions Facebook has done. They buy up every ai and digital recognition company that comes out of Israel. They buy up any company that gets a data retrieval and sorting contract with a govt agency in order to have access to information that they normally would not be allowed.
And then they worked all sorts of agreements into their user docs to track every key stroke on any device you use their platform on.
So when you log onto your bank, you gave them access to all of that information and rights to monitor and log your spending.
If you think Facebook isn’t manipulating the political world, go try to post joebiden.info and then try to messenger that link to a friend.
Never been scammed however, I do see ads that companies from china selling product that help to survive from the covid 19 that already on Amazon already but the one on facebook seems to be a scammed did not fall for it.
Nope, I’m another one who doesn’t do Facebook. I’m a natural born skeptic, and a firm believer in, “Don’t believe everything you read and hear, and only half of what you see,” and, “If it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t.”
No,….do NOT have a facebook account.
Almost.
Looking at a doll for my wife. She saw an ad on Facebook.
After seeing the low price I ran it through Google. Website came up untrustworthy from China. Facebook also had it on a list. So why do they still let them advertise? Money before people. Be careful out there.
Yes, I was scammed by an ads from Facebook. I saw an brand new Ebike ads for $99. I checked out the company’s site. It looks legit. I was doubtful with the purchase but I proceeded with the transaction anyway because the worst Is loosing $99.
Got a email confirmation from the company telling me that they will contact me when my bike is sent out. The next day, I replied to the email asking for an estimate date of delivery. The message was not able to delivered. I checked the company website again. The site disappeared. So I contacted my bank because I knew I was scammers. They reimbursed me the money and then monitor my account.
I don’t understand why anyone would buy a product from a website that they don’t know and trust. Amazon, eBay, target.com etc.
Must be the same people who believe news reports on websites like http://www.realtruenews.com. I made that site up but people around me have shown me real looking news reports from phony websites and they believe them until I show them that every other news source is saying the opposite.
More proof social media isn’t worth the time.
Saw joke on another site, Being popular on social media is akin to sitting at cool table in a mental hospital cafeteria.
In the event I access facebook, it’s from the profile I set up in my fish’s name…and I’ve cancelled all of his cc(s).
Why am I not surprised Claycord posters are not Facebook users??????🤣
No, I have not ever been scammed by any person or company anywhere.
I have had my favorite credit card skimmed, but the security system of that investment house was incredibly fast to catch it! In fact, I had used it to buy gasoline and other things …. until suddenly at Ace Hardware the card was “declined”. Paid cash there and then called the credit card folks as soon as I got home. They had caught that I had bought a tankful here in Concord…. and one hour later had filled my tank in Reno! …. had to have been one of the crook’s devices put in the gas pump machine, we figured. Anyway no charge to me, new credit card number assigned to me, and the new plastic card in the following day’s mail (at no extra charge to me).
FACEBOOK I absolutely love! I have friends and relatives all over the world who send news, funny things,photos, and videos. We can even visit “real time” using Private Messenger. However, I do not play those “copy and paste to your wall” quizzes or the for-fun preference surveys. It does seem to me they would be scam-prone.
No, but I have been scammed by our local government.
Well only those ads that flash and flash and flash. Flashy stuff. Studies show that these flashing things can lead to seizures and all sorts of disorders. Limits.
Facebook, you create the content, Zuckerberg makes the money off of it. No, I wasn’t on there long enough to be scammed by an ad, and I pretty much just ignored the ads for the most part. I reconsidered using Facebook at all when I re-connected there with a friend of mine from DVC who is the most duplicitous individual I have ever met. She will lie to your face and not bat an eyelash. If called on it, she simply refuses to comment, guilty as sin.
I kept overlooking her character flaws and forgiving her until one day she showed me van Gogh drawings on her phone and claimed they were hers — she was “copying the brushstrokes in his drawings.” They weren’t hers, they were clearly van Gogh’s drawings. Her artwork reflects her inadequacy and lack of instruction in the arts all while she claims to have attended College of Marin. She even has a website of her artwork and teaches non-artists some very simple and fundamental tracing of leaf shapes and filling in with a watercolor-type medium.
She cheated off of me all through DVC and then transferred to Denver University where she cheated her last two years off of another friend. When they both moved to Oakland and became Social Worker, she cheated off of the woman while taking the initial employment exam. When the Social Worker friend refused to let her cheat on the completion of the probationary period exam, my duplicitous Facebook friend failed the test and was out of a job. The first time it had happened in the history of the Alameda County Welfare Department.
If this was the caliber of individual who visited Facebook, it was likely pretty typical of the average Facebook user (and I do mean “user”) and just another of the many cesspools on the internet that I would just as soon avoid. I closed my account.
I haven’t used FB since mid 2012. Once you see what happened to old girlfriends and realized a lot of your family and friends are…I’ll just say it, idiots, it lost it’s charm and fast. So no, I haven’t been ripped off and I’m not sure I’d tell ya if I was. 😉
I really like FB and other social media platforms! I would never allow myself to be scammed. I only have positive experiences. No negative hateful comments from me.
@Ilovepopcorn….and that’s your problem right there in a nutshell, so to say.
No, I guess I never sent any money to anyone on fb, No one has ever been able to tempt me enough. I have seen some cute eye catching stuff, I have enough stuff though, so no.
Everything sold on Facebook now comes from China, and most is a scam. I bought two items at Christmastime and neither arrived. I thought I was safe using PayPal. However, they do not stand behind the vendor either. Don’t bite!
Even if you lose with PayPal, you can chargeback to your credit card. Done and Won both times.
The Russians convinced me to vote for Trump.
So you’re the one…