Facebook Claims Baby-Faced Fraudster Used All The Click Tricks

Marketing underworld exposed

His tabloid name is the Baby-Faced Wolf of Wall Street, and now Facebook wants to paint him as the face of ad fraud. Martin Grunin, a 22-year-old New Yorker, was accused of a sophisticated online advertising scheme that could have made him millions of dollars, and the social network is suing him over $340,000 in unpaid bills.

Grunin trafficked in Facebook ad accounts that he allegedly opened using faked identities and sold them on the black market where affiliate marketers scooped them up to amass the lucrative marketing inventory.

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