Facebook sues Bangkok resident for selling fraudulent ad tools

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Facebook sues Bangkok resident for selling fraudulent ad tools

 

FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

 

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc <FB.O> sued a Bangkok-based Indian man on Thursday for developing and marketing a software to bypass the social network's advertising review process and deliver prohibited ads to users.

 

Basant Gajjar used "cloaking", a technique that hides the true content of ads and presents something different on the surface for users on the platform, which prevented Facebook's review process from identifying improper ads, the company said.

 

Advertisers were able to promote links for deceptive diet pills, cryptocurrency scams, and even misinformation about the coronavirus outbreak through the technique, Facebook added.

 

Gajjar's unregistered business in California, LeadCloak, has been offering cloaking services since 2016, targeting firms including Alphabet Inc's Google, Oath, Wordpress and Shopify Inc, Facebook said.

 

Reuters could not immediately reach Gajjar for a comment.

 

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. district court in the Northern District of California, San Francisco division.

 

(Reporting by Munsif Vengattil and Ayanti Bera in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)

 

 

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[ezzra]

Hey, instead of suing him offer him a job, evidently he can build a better tool than your army of highly paid software engineers right?...

[Mike k]

If he is in Bangkok why aren't they suing him in Thailand

[tifino]

and now they have set a precedent, that FB really is capable of banning the recently widespread promoting of slingshots as a cure against foreigners 

[sweatalot]

facebook wants to make money themselves.

They don't allow other people to gain from their unneccesary website.

[steven100]

commercial capitalism ....  dirtbags .. imo

[Caldera]

I'd guess he doesn't have a Thai work permit for his "unregistered business in California", so he might get problems beyond getting sued by Fakebook.

 

[rickudon]

Is he responsible for VDO.A1. Bloody nuisance ads.