# Have you ever reported a Facebook page for fraud?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 29, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799 "2023-07-29T19:16:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799/1 "2023-07-29T19:16:54Z")
…And had them agree with you and pull the page?
If Facebook has any standards other than “As long as we get _our_ cut, it’s all good!”, I have yet to see them.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799/2 "2023-07-29T20:40:50Z")
Every single thing I ever reported to Facebook — post, page, person — got a “doesn’t violate our standards” reply.
A big part of why I no longer use the site.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799/3 "2023-07-29T20:51:14Z")
No, unless it counts that I have reported spoofed versions of friends’ accounts.
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799/4 "2023-07-29T21:09:37Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> unless it counts that I have reported spoofed versions of friends’ accounts.
Just what I dropped in to say.
This happens frequently, I’m sorry to report.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799/5 "2023-07-29T21:36:10Z")
I’ve only gotten things pulled by saying someone is using a fake name. But, even then, I suspect it only happened because multiple people reported them. I don’t think a human even sees reports until they hit a certain threshold.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2023, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799/6 "2023-07-30T00:54:50Z")
About four years ago, I reported some Dutch filmmakers claiming to be associated with Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson. Their page is gone now.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2023, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799/7 "2023-07-30T05:54:21Z")
I’ve mostly reported accounts where some shithead was pretending to be someone I knew and was already friends with and knew it. The fake accounts nearly always have the same (stolen) avatar but with something (usually a heart) superimposed that the original real account avatar does not have.
Facebook has usually banned them very quickly.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2023, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799/8 "2023-07-30T14:00:23Z")
I’ve only reported spoof accounts, and they’ve been banned tout suite. I’ve never bothered reporting any other fraud, but I’ve not seen anything that crosses my threshold to report. I mean, you get the impossibly attractive women from Brazil or Russia trying to friend you, but I can’t be bothered to report that. Nothing against the rules of random strangers trying to friend. you. It could be that I use Facebook Purity plug-in, but even before then, I just did not see much, if any, fraud come across my account.
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### Author:  [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799/9 "2023-07-30T14:19:18Z")
I haven’t reported a page, but I’ve reported numerous ads that were scams. FB doesn’t get back to me, I don’t know what they do, if anything.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799/10 "2023-07-30T15:13:14Z")
There’s a guy on my Idiot Congressman’s page that has at least three accounts, named Lessgo Brandon, Les Gobrandon and …some variation I forgot. All his pages look the same (and why not, as a professional troll. Not like anyone is looking at them anyway.)
Not only that, he creates fake FB accounts using the names of people he’s trolling, to mock, harrass and otherwise attempt to humiliate (including "outing " them as pedos).
“This does not violate our standards.”
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799/11 "2023-07-30T21:59:22Z")
In the Marketplace, I’ve reported 3 or 4 dozen phony house rental listings in the past 4 months. How do I know they’re phony? I keep the Zillow tab open and the house(s) show up there – usually $1000/month more than the FB ads, which are recently created with no user picture or other details. The FB ads vanish rather quickly, but there are just too many to keep up.