A day after The Times informed Facebook of its findings, the company removed all 96 impostor Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg accounts on its Facebook site. In congressional testimony this month, Mr. Zuckerberg said Facebook was improving its software to automatically detect and remove such accounts. The names of Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg are sometimes misspelled, or use parentheses and middle names (Elliot for Mr. Zuckerberg and Kara for Ms. Sandberg) to evade Facebook’s software. The Times found at least five Facebook accounts posing as Ms. Decker and advertising government grants, another known scam. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe ordeal was so costly, Ms. Keithley said, the family’s telephone service was shut off.

Source: New York Times April 25, 2018 20:11 UTC