Here are a couple of more scam ads that I discovered today: The first advertisement for sunglasselover.com is actually redirected to oakleyjpstore.com. It seems like sunglasselover.com is not even a registered domain, while oakleyjpstore.com is registered under Lin Lin in China on January 23, 2013. oakleyjpshop.com was registered by the same individual on January 14, 2013. It’s amazing that Facebook allows these kinds of advertisements. With some of the best brains in the industry, it should be easy for them to automatically check the domain registration dates of all websites that want to advertise on Facebook. Domains registered during theContinue reading »

I’ve decided to create this blog to feature some stories in the world of marketing related to Your Next Ensemble. Hopefully it will be of interest to some people out there. Today I want to comment on how Facebook seems to make money from dubious websites selling counterfeit products or otherwise scamming their customers. Since I live in Japan, I am normally targeted by ads in Japanese, of which you’ll find some examples below: This screen capture was taken from my Facebook Adboard, which is a useful site on Facebook showing your most recently viewed ads. The left advertisement isContinue reading »