Facebook Advertiser Pays Out $500,000 Settlement

If you’ve used any Facebook applications in the past two years, you’ve probably seen the ads which say “You Have 2 New Messages” or “One of your buddies has a crush on you”. The advertisements have become practically ubiquitous across Facebook applications and there’s a good reason for that: they have an extremely high payout.

The sites that users are driven to trick users into subscribing to a horoscope subscription service and according to the Washington Attorney General, those advertisements are false and deceptive and “violate the settlement agreement Tatto (the advertiser) signed last year, when it agreed to refrain from such campaigns.”