Facebook sued 4 Vietnamese people for fraud of 36 million USD, using fraudulent money for luxury entertainment

Facebook also said that this group of Vietnamese had run illegal ads worth more than $36 million. In these cases, Facebook refunded the victims and helped them secure their accounts.

Facebook said it had filed a lawsuit against a group of four Vietnamese people for violating the terms and advertising policies of this social network. In the lawsuit, Facebook specified the names of four individual defendants, including Nguyen T., Le K., Nguyen Quoc B. and Pham Huu D.

Facebook alleges that these people used a technique known as "session theft" or "cookie theft" to break into the accounts of employees of advertising and marketing agencies and then run ads. illegal.

The defendants tricked victims into installing a mobile app from the Google Play app store with the fake name "Ads Manager for Facebook". This app asks users to share their Facebook login and other information.

The defendants used that information to access their accounts and run ads. In some cases, these ads even promote online scams.

Facebook also said that this group of Vietnamese had run illegal ads worth more than $36 million. In these cases, Facebook refunded the victims and helped them secure their accounts.

According to Facebook, this group of people used the accounts to run 10,000 ads on Facebook and Instagram. In particular, one of the popular forms of advertising is running sales livestream videos.

Currently, Facebook has also disabled the Facebook and Instagram accounts of the four people mentioned above.

A Facebook representative said that the company sued the four people mentioned above for violating the policy agreement of the social network, as well as violating California law.

And according to the lawsuit, in addition to asking these four people to pay damages in the amount of at least $ 36 million, Facebook also wants the court to order a ban on access to their social networking website.

Facebook's lawsuit reveals that with the money earned from scams, the defendants spent many lavish hobbies and posted bragging photos on social networks. In particular, the lawsuit cited many photos posted by these individuals, from images of buying a series of Apple products, going on a cruise, buying a Mercedes-Benz car, sitting on business class airline tickets, using expensive watches. money...

"During 2020 and 2021, the defendant group used the fraudulent funds to organize parties, buy expensive vehicles, travel in business class, dine out, get tattoos and many other spending pleasures. Then they brag about their lives," Facebook wrote in the lawsuit.

Before being discovered, these four subjects ran false ads promoting the sale of a variety of items including clothing, mugs, watches and toys for their own e-commerce platform. "As soon as someone clicks on the ad, the user is directed to a third-party website to pay for their purchase. However, once the payment is complete, the user never receives any. any goods or items delivered are not what they ordered or are of poor quality," Facebook said.

The four people mentioned above not only ran about 10,000 ads on Facebook and Instagram, but also "rented the offending accounts". For example, an object named PHD "regularly provides Vietnamese users with access to hijacked Facebook accounts, then runs product ads through video streaming".

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