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<p>[QUOTE="ritzyvintage, post: 3620236, member: 18191"]<i>What annoys me about the scam (I know I was stupid and it's my own fault) is that Facebook do nothing about it.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Few people realise that <u>anything & everything </u> they put on Facebook, belongs to Facebook. Period. All posts, photos, pages become Facebook property to do with as they like. Furthermore, Facebook has no postal address and can rarely (if ever) be sued by the likes of You & I. Paypal and eBay the same. Thousands & thousands of pending lawsuits against Facebook will never see daylight and they've been pending for years... Both eBay and payPal are on record saying <i>that they wouldn't pay $1 to own Facebook. </i>It is almost unmanageable and beyond any recourse. One only needs an avatar pic & a phoney email address to join, and there are countless scammers all over the world using banks of computers & alias names etc. in order to dupe the unwary and knowing they cannot be found. Entire office blocks in countries like Argentina, India and Nigeria, are used by some of these scammers too. I personally wouldn't go near Falsebook to conduct My business.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ritzyvintage, post: 3620236, member: 18191"][I]What annoys me about the scam (I know I was stupid and it's my own fault) is that Facebook do nothing about it.[/I] Few people realise that [U]anything & everything [/U] they put on Facebook, belongs to Facebook. Period. All posts, photos, pages become Facebook property to do with as they like. Furthermore, Facebook has no postal address and can rarely (if ever) be sued by the likes of You & I. Paypal and eBay the same. Thousands & thousands of pending lawsuits against Facebook will never see daylight and they've been pending for years... Both eBay and payPal are on record saying [I]that they wouldn't pay $1 to own Facebook. [/I]It is[I] [/I]almost unmanageable and beyond any recourse. One only needs an avatar pic & a phoney email address to join, and there are countless scammers all over the world using banks of computers & alias names etc. in order to dupe the unwary and knowing they cannot be found. Entire office blocks in countries like Argentina, India and Nigeria, are used by some of these scammers too. I personally wouldn't go near Falsebook to conduct My business.[/QUOTE]
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