Get Your Money Stolen with Meta Theft
How to Steal from Meta's customers, and get away with it..........almost
They know you have a credit card at Meta
First, the hacker monitors your Facebook site, knows you are running ads, and knows your credit card and bank in formation is in there, unprotected.
They break Metas passwords
Second, the hacker usually uses cookie theft, a very common method, to obtain your Facebook or Instagram password, gets access to your Meta Ads page, loaded with open access to running ads using your credit card or bank data.
It's money time.
They know they have time
Third, the hacker knows that getting your site back from Facebook is a long and painful process, all the while, Facebook has not frozen access to the Meta Ad control panel, so they have time to get the real work done.
They run their own massive ad campaigns, on your dime
Fourth, at the Meta Ads panel, they run ad campaigns with their own products, to hundreds of millions of people, at rates hundreds of times higher than you normally do, using your credit card or bank accounts.
They know the limits of greed
Fifth, they know the limits, and stop the Meta ad campaign after 2 or 3 days, delete the campaign images and data, leaving an almost blank slate on the Meta dashboard, a large hole in your bank account, and vanish, only to move onto the next unsuspecting user.
They know Meta is unable or unwilling to help their customers.
Sixth, they know Meta is a lumbering maze of invisible people, who are experts at shuffling quotes claiming no responsibility, obfuscation and blame shifting, so tracking down the how and who is left to the customer. Meta claims no responsibility, nor ability to fix the inherent problem they allowed to exist in the first place.
This doesn't happen to other internet ad platforms, as they have appropriate security barriers, so rather than fight crime, Meta is more than ok with it.
The trifecta of theft
Seventh, the trifecta of theft - needs, opportunity, assets.
The thief can hardly be blamed, the Meta store has vast amounts of wares on display, with little protection, while the customer thinks they are safe inside Meta.
Its a perfect landscape, someone wants, someone's indifferent, someone's blind.
Seamless theft, disappears without a trace, almost.
The perfect crime does not exist, but this is close, sneak in unguarded, grab the goods, vanish into the night, and at daybreak the unwilling or unable are nowhere to be seen.
Neither are the stolen good, leaving only the good owner with empty hands, and no resolution.
Honestly, its ingenious.