Lawsuit  Against N&J

According to an official statement, the first lawsuit was filed against a marketing firm N&J USA Inc. for its involvement in bait-and-switch online ad promotions on Facebook. The company allegedly ran fraudulent ads on Facebook that, when clicked, redirected victims to a deceptive e-commerce site. The defendants even blocked users’ negative feedback on their Facebook pages, violating user rights.

Lawsuit  Against Vietnamese Suspects

The second lawsuit is against four Vietnamese suspects – Nguyễn Quốc Bảo, Thêm Hữu Nguyễn, Lê Khang, and Pham Hữu Dung for running unauthorized advertisements by hijacking employee accounts of various marketing firms. The defendants allegedly deceived the victims into installing a fake mobile app, “Ad Manager for Facebook,” which was created to steal users’ login credentials. The perpetrators leveraged compromised Facebook accounts to run fraudulent ads worth $36 million and promote their online scams.

“As part of our ongoing efforts to keep people safe and combat abuse of our ad platform, we filed two separate legal actions today against the perpetrators of online scams who violated our Terms and Advertising Policies. Today’s legal actions demonstrate our ongoing commitment to protecting users, enforcing our policies, and holding people accountable for abusing our services,” Facebook said.

Facebook Settles Class-Action Lawsuit

In one of the largest data violation lawsuit settlements, Facebook recently agreed to pay $650 million to users in Illinois who indicted the social media giant for using photo face-tagging and biometric information without their consent. Nearly 1.6 million users in the Prairie State filed a class-action lawsuit against Facebook in April 2015, for violating the Illinois privacy law. The claimants stated that Facebook used its facial recognition technology to unauthorizedly scan and collect users’ photos from their profiles. Read More Here…

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“When people installed those apps on their devices, MobiBurn collected information from the devices and requested data from Facebook, including the person’s name, time zone, email address and gender. MobiBurn did not compromise Facebook, instead they used the malicious SDK on the users’ devices to collect information,” Facebook said in a report.

MobiBurn’s behavior came to light after security researchers reported the incident in a data abuse bounty program. Facebook then took enforcement action by sending a cease-and-desist letter asking MobiBurn to participate in a security audit, to which MobiBurn denied its cooperation.

In the U.S., Facebook Inc. and Instagram LLC sued Nikolay Holper in Federal Court in San Francisco for running a fake service called “Nakrutka” to sell fake likes, views, comments, and followers on Instagram. Facebook claims that Holper used a network of bots and automation software to run his fake engagement services on Instagram.

Lawsuits Filed Earlier

This is not the first time Facebook took legal action against abusers. Recently, it filed a similar lawsuit against Namecheap, an Arizona-based provider of domain name registrars online, for refusing to cooperate in an investigation to find malicious domains that have been registered through its services. Namecheap impersonated Facebook’s brand name and refused to share details about the owners of the suspicious domains. Security experts at Facebook tracked down 45 suspicious lookalike domains that are registered via Namecheap. It also filed a lawsuit in Virginia against 12 hoax domain names registered by Indian-based proxy service provider Compsys Domain Solutions Private Ltd. The malicious domains spoofed Facebook and its product names to carry out unethical activities.

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