Facebook kills 37% of malicious marketing accounts in six months

If you've ever received an untrue friend request, you know there are a lot of malicious marketing accounts on Facebook. Facebook has struggled with these malicious marketing accounts, and it appears that Facebook is on its way to victory. Facebook's assessment of active users in the fourth quarter reported that the share of bad accounts, including malicious marketing accounts, had fallen from 1.5% last June to 0.9%. In other words, just 9.5 million of the trouble makers on Facebook today are down 37% compared with 15.1 million in 2012.

Facebook brought us the data on page 23rd of its fourth quarter of 2012, and it also defines what a bad account is: "The account that we have identified, intentionally violating our terms or destroying our services to achieve a certain purpose, such as malicious marketing." "It's important to get rid of malicious marketing accounts from Facebook because of the innate viral nature of Facebook and the vast range of communication channels."

If malicious marketing is allowed to survive, their fake friend requests, marketing images with countless people tags, fake event invitations, and any other action that attracts your attention will overwhelm Facebook as a flood. And these malicious marketers tend to use phishing methods to steal other people's Facebook login information. Once the fishing is successful, they use the innocent account to attack his friends.

Facebook has set up a team of experts to deal with these bad accounts. Although the situation has been improving, but because of the current number of such accounts are still large, the security team to do a lot of work. Given that the more than 10, 20-person weight-loss ads, shoe-and-shoe promotions are still rampant, Facebook may be able to create a tougher picture-filtering system, especially if it has more than 6 labels, but not a single face. In addition, it is said that Facebook security team members often disguised as malicious marketers infiltrate the secret hacker forum, learn their latest technology to break the Facebook automatic defense system, and then fix the vulnerabilities immediately with the information.

Since Facebook currently has 9.5 million of bad users, does that mean that the remaining 1.055 billion people account, each representing a living person? The answer is no. Facebook's assessment said that 1.3% of the month's active users were "bug-positioned", meaning they were personal accounts, but were wrongly used in companies, institutions and even pets. But the world is still getting smarter, and the proportion of "bug-fixing" accounts has fallen from 2.4% last June to 1.3% now. Well, so much, if we should learn to do something, that is: if you see a malicious advertisement on Facebook, please report him. Also, don't ask your cat for a personal account, so just give it an official website.

Via TechCrunch

Source: http://www.leiphone.com/facebook-anti-spamming.html