[Air-L] Facebook scam spam solution

[Tom Hale]

Thanks for sharing this

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Tom Hale
PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies
ThomasHaleResearch.com


On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 08:27 Joly MacFie via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
wrote:

> Since I livestream for a number of ISOC Chapters and other orgs I have
> editor/task manager rights on many of their facebook 'business' pages. In
> the last week a bunch of scam spam has started showing up on pretty much
> all of them. It takes the form of a message from '*Group XXXX*' where XXXX
> is a number, containing copy such as "*Your fanpage has received a
> copyright warning, you need to contact and confirm your page." *or "*Your
> Facebook page will be permanently deleted due to a post that infringes our
> trademark rights"*
>
> While these can be dismissed or reported as spam, what enables them in the
> first place is a, I guess, new FB feature called '*Guest Chat*', where
> anyone can anonymously message a page. To get rid of these once and for
> all, the only solution is to disable the feature.
>
> Here is FB's page on how to do this
> https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1343862509336154
>
> My method is
>
> 1) login to your Chapter page
> 2) https://business.facebook.com/latest/inbox/settings/chat_plugin
> 3) click'*Customize Your Chat Plugin*
> 4) toggle off *Guest Chat*
> 5) click *Publish* in the bottom right
>
> Happy remediation!
>
> Joly
>
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