Close to 3 million dollars worth of damage due to nepadvertenties with CELEBRITIES in 2019

More than a hundred people in the past year have been victims of fraud by fake bitcoinadvertenties, for which the name and likeness of famous people are used to, let's Fraudehelpdesk Wednesday NU.nl namely from the date of notification of the News. Together they are the victims of nearly 3 million in damages.

now, In 2019, there were 332 victims of an amount of 2.916.555 of the euro. This is a substantial increase: by 2018, reported that 39 of the victims at the Fraudehelpdesk. They are members in total, 776.642 dollars worth of damage.

in Particular, in the last years, diving is becoming more and more nepadvertenties using the name and likeness of, among others, Alexander Klöpping, Ruud Feltkamp, and Matthijs van Nieuwkerk will be in vain. Also, the design of the media, such as the Dutch and the NU.nl are cheats being used.

John de Mol, launched in 2019, filed a lawsuit against Facebook, because of the nepadvertenties. In november, the Amsterdam district court that the Facebook nepadvertenties with the name and likeness of The Mole should be removed.

finally, The district court asked Facebook and a daily penalty payment of € 1.1 million euro in the prospect, if the company ads aren't actively trying to. However, social media might not meet all of the requirements. Facebook, therefore, is appealing the decision.