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  • New member – very offensive spam

    Posted by Phyllis Olesek on April 11, 2022 at 9:37 am

    My brother is a pro photographer who shares his photos on a Facebook page. He is getting spam that is in varying degrees of repulsive or sexually suggestive,
    He CANNOT see it on his page nor has anyone else who follows him mentioned it. My daughter and I can both see it when we go to his page. These posts do not show comments or have “share” buttons nor am I given an option to delete, hide, etc. Only option is to report. They often disappear but new ones show up immediately. I notice almost all are different names (sponsored) and different web addresses. Another thing they all have in common is that the word PHOTO or
    IMAGES is always in the title or the description.
    My daughter, brother and I have all run “Clean My Mac” and “Malware Bytes” with nothing found. What can be done about this?

    Phyllis Olesek replied 2 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 9 Replies
  • 9 Replies
  • J.C. Hall

    Member
    April 11, 2022 at 9:50 am

    Do you have your daughter use the same device to view Facebook or does this happen on multiple devices? Also, does this happen on different internet connections, like at home vs somewhere else?

    • Phyllis Olesek

      Member
      April 11, 2022 at 10:42 am

      We do not use the same connection. We are in different states. Have not tried other internet connections but will try my from another connections asap. I have t-mobile, she has at&t.

  • J.C. Hall

    Member
    April 11, 2022 at 11:04 am

    Are you getting the spam on when rendering Facebook your mobile devices or are you using those mobile carriers for hotspots for your computers?

  • Phyllis Olesek

    Member
    April 11, 2022 at 11:06 am

    not using hot spots

    • Phyllis Olesek

      Member
      April 11, 2022 at 11:35 am

      I hope I answered your question JC Hall. I’m 77 YO and not very tech savvy.

  • TeamKomando:John

    Administrator
    April 13, 2022 at 3:38 pm

    It sounds like they are sponsored ads, if he does not see them on the page he is posting the images on.

    • Phyllis Olesek

      Member
      April 13, 2022 at 5:48 pm

      Is there any way to stop the posts?
      Here are examples of how they appear:

      Top line: Brash Nuggets
      Sponsored
      Bottom line: En.Trendexposed.com

      Top Line (above image): Thetechnodrom
      sponsored

      Bottom line (Under image): en.technodrom.com

      Artists
      Sponsored

      en.TRAVELERZ.COM

  • TeamKomando:John

    Administrator
    April 14, 2022 at 8:52 am

    Tap or click here to see how to disable ad campaigns.

  • Phyllis Olesek

    Member
    April 15, 2022 at 7:46 am

    Thank you so much, John. I’m hopeful to fix this. Am working on it now.

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