Ctrl+f'd "terms"...unpleasantly surprised that no one else in the thread seems to have got this result :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470530 Looks like it was a real Facebook login webview.
I was surprised too since OP's writeup indicates that he has 2FA on everything. You would think that you'd at least get an email or push notification if you get removed from an ad account/notification settings get…
It's actually even nastier than that. If you fail their automated checks for fake accounts, they'll lock your account and require you to submit a photo of your face and ID card.
He had a Facebook ads account with PayPal linked, and the hacker used his login info to run their own (apparently Vietnamese aluminum product) ad campaign and spend using his account.
Fascinating! I'll update my nomenclature, that's some quality digging.
Ha. I'm stealing that joke, that's quality. I wonder if anybody's managed financial success on Medium/Substack yet with a "hustler inspiration" focused GPT masquerading as a guru. I'd love to read that postmortem.
I sincerely thought the author was joking at first. My lived experience is similar - some folks just genuinely act crappy just because they can, not because of "is actually caused by the systematic inequalities and…
"Let’s admit it, we are all in the persuasion business. Technologists build products meant to persuade people to do what we want them to do. We call these people 'users' and even if we don’t say it aloud, we secretly…
Ctrl+f'd "terms"...unpleasantly surprised that no one else in the thread seems to have got this result :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470530 Looks like it was a real Facebook login webview.
I was surprised too since OP's writeup indicates that he has 2FA on everything. You would think that you'd at least get an email or push notification if you get removed from an ad account/notification settings get…
It's actually even nastier than that. If you fail their automated checks for fake accounts, they'll lock your account and require you to submit a photo of your face and ID card.
He had a Facebook ads account with PayPal linked, and the hacker used his login info to run their own (apparently Vietnamese aluminum product) ad campaign and spend using his account.
Fascinating! I'll update my nomenclature, that's some quality digging.
Ha. I'm stealing that joke, that's quality. I wonder if anybody's managed financial success on Medium/Substack yet with a "hustler inspiration" focused GPT masquerading as a guru. I'd love to read that postmortem.
I sincerely thought the author was joking at first. My lived experience is similar - some folks just genuinely act crappy just because they can, not because of "is actually caused by the systematic inequalities and…
"Let’s admit it, we are all in the persuasion business. Technologists build products meant to persuade people to do what we want them to do. We call these people 'users' and even if we don’t say it aloud, we secretly…