Social media|A huge number of scam ads have begun to spread on Meta’s social media services using the identities of well -known Finns working in the investment industry unauthorized.
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Instagram and Facebook spread Finnish investment scam ads using unauthorized identities of well -known Finnish investment influencers.
Scam ads try to collect personal information from Finns, such as phone numbers and names.
Jukka Oksaharju says he has received hundreds of contacts and tried to get the ads exit without success.
On social New Finnish investment scams are spreading in the media that utilize Finnish investment influencers.
Ads have spread rapidly on Instagram and Facebook.
People in scam ads have nothing to do with it, but their names and face are used without permission in ads.
HS: N Invocory advertisements have featured, among other things, investors Aki Pyysing, Jukka Oksaharju and Jukka LepikkoNordnet’s Magic Poda podcast consists of Miikka Luukkonen as well as professor of funding Vesa Puttonen.
The contents of the scam ads vary, but at least in most cases, ads try to get Finns to send their phone number and full name to the advertiser.
Jukka Oksaharju is one of those whose identity has been unauthorized in scam ads.
Identity theft Jukka Oksaharju, who has been in scam ads, is sorry for the situation. Oksaharju says he has received a “confusing number” contact with his identity abuse ads.
“I have told the three -digit number of people who have inquired that this is a scam and that they would report it,” Oksaharju says.
“Some people have made sure of me whether it is my own activity. These people are disappointed or experienced being cheated. The other half of the people has seen that the contents of the scam profile do not correspond to any communication that I have been practicing for years and informed me about the existence of the cheat.”
Oksaharju says he and other people used in scam ads have tried to get the ads to leave, but to no avail.
Meta Despite the announcements, it does not affect the spread of scam ads.
A large number of fake user accounts have been created for scam ads, repeating the names of the same celebrities.
The name of Jukka Oksaharju alone has a dozen fake pages on Facebook that is used to buy advertising space.
Meta did not respond to an interview request sent by HS.