Viagra Spammers Hit Facebook

Posted in Facebook Marketing on March 4th, 2008 by Amin

fake tooth whitening advert

So there I was, chilling for a bit on Facebook, when I noticed a ‘tooth whitening’ advert on the usual Facebook ad spot.

Being the curious marketer that I am, I clicked on it to see how exactly the blog was being monetised. The link took me to a blog, which although looked fine, had a strange post on viagra. And literally a second after I noticed this, the page automatically redirected to medsmaster.com, a viagra site.

What’s interesting is the way in which this advert passed Facebook’s manual ad review. It seems like the marketer first waited until their innocent teeth whitening help blog was approved by the Facebook mods, and then inserted a redirect script into the main index page taking visitors to the viagra site.

Shady.

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One Response to “Viagra Spammers Hit Facebook”

  1. SlightlyShadySEO Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    Facebook’s manual reviews are a joke. They’re super anal-retentive about a lot of things, but their entire system is flawed and easily exploitable.

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