[Chapter-delegates] Facebook scam spam solution

[Veni Markovski]

Very helpful!
Thank you!

v/

On 1/15/24 16:33, Joly MacFie via Chapter-delegates wrote:
> Since I livestream for a number of Chapters I have editor/task manager 
> rights on many of their facebook 'business' pages. In the last week a 
> bunch of scam spam has started showing up on pretty much all of them. 
> It takes the form of a message from '*Group XXXX*' where XXXX is a 
> number, containing copy such as "*Your fanpage has received a 
> copyright warning, you need to contact and confirm your page." *or 
> "*Your Facebook page will be permanently deleted due to a post that 
> infringes our trademark rights"*
> *
> *
> While these can be dismissed or reported as spam, what enables them in 
> the first place is a, I guess, new FB feature called '*Guest Chat*', 
> where anyone can anonymously message a page. To get rid of these once 
> and for all, the only solution is to disable the feature.
>
> Here is FB's page on how to do this
> https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1343862509336154
>
> My method is
>
> 1) login to your Chapter page
> 2) https://business.facebook.com/latest/inbox/settings/chat_plugin
> 3) click'*Customize Your Chat Plugin*
> 4) toggle off *Guest Chat*
> 5) click *Publish* in the bottom right
>
> Happy remediation!
>
> Joly
>
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