to think Facebook should have banned this scam advert

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No, Great Western Railway aren't giving away £3 passes for their trains.
Despite what the Facebook ad said. And despite the comments of people "showing" their passes in the comments.

This was from Full Fact last year.
I saw a recent ad - and reported it

But apparently it didn't break any rules.
Great Western Railway is not giving away a free year of travel for £1.69 – Full Fact

Why wouldn't Facebook remove it?

I spent £60 on a Cath Kidston sale being advertised on Facebook but it was a scam and I lost the money. They seem to have a lot of scams.

Ahem 50+ are Gen X and we are a bit more savvy that that... Boomers are 60+ and I hope to think they are also more intelligent that that

Apologies for the previous post, didn't realise you had already apologised
:-)

and the 90s were just 15 years ago wasn't it?

I've seen one for Cadbury's and Charlotte Tilbury make-up. The Cadbury's one was believable as it's not an expensive brand. The CT one was less believable as it usually costs a fortune! Facebook should be taking all this stuff down. They know what's going on and just don't care!

I once had a wordle result blocked as spam lol.

I reported the Seasalt ones as scam, with mo effect. So I tried reporting as impersonation, giving, as requested, the genuine Seasalt facebook page. Still no result

Asda aren't giving away £250 either.

I just write

S. C. A. M.

On every post.

@12purplepencils I AM a Boomer (just at 62) and I teach this bloody stuff to people half my age!

So many these days, I've almost fallen for them in the past but I've just started a personal policy of don't buy anything from a social media app and just go to an actual commerce website.

A few years ago there was a center parcs one where you had to like or comment and win a weekend away.
Cue all sorts of sob stories why people deserved it more than anyone else

I assume those ones that say Amazon is giving away ooo’s of last year’s iPads/iPhones for £30 are scams? Even though there are “just received mine” comments underneath?

Yes we are!