Scammers have long tried to market and sell fake diet pills in order to steal your personal and financial data or send you a dodgy product.
This latest scam uses AI-generated images of weight-loss case studies and sends victims to a fake news website.
Below, we unpack the latest keto diet pill scam.
Keto diet pill scams
Dodgy Facebook accounts are tagging other users on the platform in posts that show fake weight-loss transformations.
One of the posts says: ‘Finally I found an effective method following my friend’s recommendation! In just 20 days, my family was amazed by my transformation.’
It then instructs you to click the link in the comments so that the poster can ‘share their joy with everyone’.
The link is created using a link shortener, which disguises the true website address.
Malicious keto pill website
One website we investigated impersonated the Mail Online. It presented a fake news article reporting on actress Letitia Dean’s weight loss.
The loss of ‘over two stone in just a few weeks’ is put down to keto diet pills.
The fake story contained various links that lead to another scam site, which contains a questionnaire asking for gender, body type, dream body, exercise and sleep habits as well as your current weight and height.
On completing the questions, you're sent to a page where you’re asked for your personal and financial information to purchase the keto diet pills.
We reported this website to the National Cyber Security Centre.
How to spot a scam post on social media
Some signs that a post or an advert on social media may be a scam:
You can report dodgy posts and accounts on Facebook by selecting the three dots in the top-right corner of the post or account profile and pressing ‘report’.
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