I can't believe he is gone, I'm gonna miss him so much
Ive seen these obvious fraud/phishing attacks posted on Facebook so much in the past few weeks. I report them every time. Every time Facebook responds (presumably through some automated system) that it doesn't violate their community standards, so I request another review. I know it will be denied again, but I mostly do it out of spite. So I've taken to posting links to these posts in comments on posts on Facebook's company pages. My comments calling them out on their complete disregard for their users' safety then get removed because they're "spam" or "trying to get likes". It's absolutely ridiculous.
The posts in question are almost always the same format: User A sharing post X to User B with the comment "I can't believe he is gone, i'm gonna miss him so much " (sometimes the emoji will be different). This post tags a bunch of other users. Post X is a link to a shady URL with a fake thumbnail that looks like a YouTube thumbnail for a news report of a fatal car accident. I assume that clicking the link will compromise your own account and spread the message further, along with who knows what other malicious actions.
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