[RobinL]

I got several people wanting to send a courier last time I listed something on Facebook. Checking their pages, they were all from eastern Europe with no obvious connection to my city. Good to know the mechanics of the scam, I wondered what they were up to. Don't understand why Facebook couldn't have auto detected the messages though - seemed like a pretty major failure of marketplace that the majority of the messages I got were scams.

[lazide]

Someone is probably afraid to be too effective at filtering them out, as it would nuke their numbers. (Engagement/messages sent? Who knows)

If most of the traffic is scams, it’s not like they can remove it without something showing up in their metrics after all.

Search, and USPS ‘spam’ mail has a similar problem.