[dendory]

Facebook is just a huge mess, really. The other day I was amazed at one particular scam that was so obvious, I decided to investigate. Someone made a page that promised a free iPhone 5 (even though there is no such thing) and had sent over 800,000 invites to people in 3 days. Over 20% answered, liked the page, and entered an email address in a form (as the fan page instructed). The wall was filled with comments like "I hope I win!" and such. There was even some people commenting on the fact that there is no such thing as an iPhone 5, and in every case the answer from other users was basically "who cares? what do we have to lose? it might be true"

Moral of the story? There's enough gullible people on Facebook for scammers to make money, regardless what measure Facebook puts in place.

[tomjen3]

It is better than that though.

You see you now not only have a list email addresses. You have a list of email addresses of gullible people. Pretty smart if you ask me.

[yread]

What was the quote again? "Nobody ever lost money by overestimating the stupidity."

There's also plenty of people who "like" pages because somebody put a transparent like button over them.

[endlessvoid94]

Newsflash: There are enough gullible people EVERYWHERE for these things to work. This is not a new thing.

[megablast]

But now, we have one place to go to meet them all. People on craigslist are wary, otherwise it is not easy to get a group of gullible people all in one place.

[endlessvoid94]

There is literally an advertising industry with this fact at its foundation.