Ask HN: 12 of 17 vehicles (71%) listed first in FB marketplace are scams, Why?

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4 years ago

Clicking on Facebook Marketplace vehicles section am confronted with onslaught of scams listings. https://imgur.com/a/DPSUBhC

First three rows show 21 results, 17 vehicles and 4 sponsored ads. Out of the 17 vehicles, 12 are scams, 71%.

Reporting these seems to do nothing. Is FB that powerless to stop this?

There was a story on this 6 months ago but maybe got worse? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676973

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