Two Firms Fined $721K For Facebook Scam Involving U.K. Grocery Chains Tesco, Asda
Facebook crime does not pay, as a 2011 scam that promised users of the social network free vouchers and gift cards for U.K. grocery chains Tesco and Asda wound up costing mBill of Australia and Amazecell of Israel a total of £450,000 ($721,000).
Facebook crime does not pay, as a 2011 scam that promised users of the social network free vouchers and gift cards for U.K. grocery chains Tesco and Asda wound up costing mBill of Australia and Amazecell of Israel a total of £450,000 ($721,000).
Sophos’ Naked Security blog reported that PhonepayPlus, the U.K. regulator of premium-rate phone-paid services, found mBill and Amazecell guilty of running deliberately misleading promotions on Facebook, fining the offending firms £150,000 ($240,000) and £300,000 ($481,000), respectively, and ordering them to issue refunds to any affected users of the social network who request them.
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