Facebook Sues Bangkok Resident For Selling Fraudulent Ad Tools

April 9 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc sued a Bangkok-based Indian man on Thursday for wordpress developing and wordpress marketing a software to bypass the social network's advertising review process and nulled deliver prohibited ads to users.

Basant Gajjar used "cloaking", a technique that hides the true content of ads and wordpress plugins presents something different on the surface for users on the platform, woocommerce which prevented Facebook's review process from identifying improper ads, yukapo the company said.

Advertisers were able to promote links for wordpress plugins deceptive diet pills, nulled cryptocurrency scams, woocommerce theems and woocommerce even misinformation about the coronavirus outbreak through the technique, Facebook added.

Gajjar's unregistered business in California, yukapo LeadCloak, wordpress themes has been offering cloaking services since 2016, wordpress themes woocommerce plugins targeting firms including Alphabet Inc's Google, nulled Oath, Wordpress and wordpress themes Shopify Inc, nulled Facebook said.

Reuters could not immediately reach Gajjar for woocommerce plugins a comment.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S.

reddit.comdistrict court in the Northern District of California, San Francisco division. (Reporting by Munsif Vengattil and woocommerce theems Ayanti Bera in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)