How Fake Mark Zuckerbergs Scam Facebook Users Out of Their Cash

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The company has recently been under a lot of controversies starting with the Cambridge Analytica and now we have on news fake accounts.

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There are many fake Facebook accounts of CEO Mark Zuckerberg & COO Sheryl Sandberg that are deceiving people with fake lottery schemes and luring them into paying money.

These impersonators managed to tricked users into paying thousands of dollars as delivery fees in order to collect their lottery winnings and delivered at their home. The payments are transacted through wire transfers or through iTune giftcards which can be sold in the black market for cash.

There are over hundreds of fake accounts claiming to be company's top officials which have tremendous amount of likes and follows as people are unable to identify the authenticity of it. While more than fifty accounts are found involved in fake lottery scams which they usually target old citizens who are not very well aware about the internet scams.

Here are some screenshots of numerous fake accounts of Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg.

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The company says that there are over as more than 60 million fake accounts on Facebook usually consisting of users pretending to be celebrities.

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