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by spookthesunset 1540 days ago
At the scale of FB, handling fraud is a non-trivial effort. At any given time there are probably thousands of somewhat well funded fraud teams looking to bypass whatever shiny new countermeasure FB adds to their site.

There is a lot of money to be made from defrauding FB users. This monetary incentive results in criminals investing tons of effort into bypassing anti-fraud stuff. It is a non-stop effort of incremental moves on both parties that will carry on for as long as FB users remain a juicy target.