[anon_cow1111]

This is true but also... In my experience[1] a large majority of facebook-level romance scammers use the same copypasta messages when possible, because they actually are from (e.g.)Nigeria and really do have poor English.

This is especially relevant to your point because facebook could EASILY be flagging people based on known pasta messages, for review or shadowbanning etc. They presumably don't do this because "not my problem".

1.Actually the experience of someone I know who's turned screwing with scammers into a personal hobby, who frequently shares notes on this with me.

[colejohnson66]

> They presumably don't do this because "not my problem".

They don’t care. It’s that simple. I’ve (on Facebook/Instagram) reported scams, and they always say it doesn’t violate their community guidelines. But it turns out the computer “reviewed” my report, so I appeal it, and it’s always “sorry, but we don’t have enough people, so we’re ignoring this appeal. Here’s the report ID for the ‘review’ board.” On the rare chance a human does review it, they say “a human reviewed your report, and you’re right.”

They so much don’t care that, now, reporting scam/spam just says, “thanks for letting our system learn” without a way to make an actual report. I’ve given up reporting scam/spam.

For a real kicker, I’ve reported a literal terrorist threat-like post, and it was still “pending” after a week.

[heavyset_go]

I've reported scams where people were selling "spells" to make ex-partners come back to the buyer, or to fall in love with them, and got the same automated responses from Facebook.

I shit you not, there are people on Instagram who are scamming mentally ill people by telling them that they can train them to do psychokinesis and psychic levitation. I've been following them for months since someone I care about fell for it, and they're amassing really large followings while running blatantly obvious scams. Facebook does nothing about it despite multiple reports.

[kabes]

Exactly my experience as well. Even for the most obvious scams. Either they really are so incompetent or they don't care at all

[NearAP]

>> because they actually are from (e.g.)Nigeria and really do have poor English.

This isn't true. English is Nigeria's official language (all Education is in English) and people generally speak English well. Secondly, folks from Nigeria actually use the gist of the article as a flag for filtering out scam i.e. once they open an email with bad grammar, they automatically assume it's scam and ignore it.

[nottorp]

It's funny how native English speakers assume that:

[a] English, which is being used for communication internationally just about everywhere, is only spoken well in the anglo-saxon areas.

[b] Someone who speaks bad English doesn't realize it just because they're in a poor country.

[VBprogrammer]

Anyone ever tried flagging those obvious scam accounts with ridiculously obviously fake photos (or, at least misappropriated from some aspiring models insta account).

Even when it's blatantly obvious Facebook always tells me that their account doesn't break their community standards...

[walderf]

source: ^ his brother is a Nigerian prince!