Janet Jackson'due south billionaire ex hubby, Wissam Al Mana, has demanded that Facebook reveal who was behind ads on the platform that used his image to promote a crypto scam.

The case stems from late Feb when Al Mana filed a lawsuit against the social media giant virtually a cryptocurrency scam using his proper name to promote itself in the Center E. Al Mana claimed defamation, malicious falsehood and false ad from the purported cryptocurrency firm 'Bitcoin Trader'.

I man to sue them all

Facebook has since deleted the offending ads, but Al Mana is concerned fraudsters can publish like ads containing his image in the future. His lawyers have practical for a court social club that would oblige Facebook to reveal details about the advertising'southward publishers, the Irish gaelic Times reported on March 25.

Al Mana is seeking information about the fraudsters' names, addresses, contact details, payment methods and billing accost. Al Mana is suing Facebook Ireland Ltd forth with the parties behind the ads.

High Courtroom Justice Leonie Reynolds has urged the parties to resolve their differences before she hears the order application. The 12 month deadline for the dispute hearing is in May, however Facebook's counsel asserted that it could be extended to 24 months amid the COVID-nineteen outbreak.

Crypto scams involving big names

Claiming imitation legitimacy by appropriating the identity of well known figures —- including Kate Winslet, Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Neb Gates — is popular among cryptocurrency swindlers. In November final yr a Dutch judge ordered Facebook to pay x,000 Euros ($10,890) each time a new, fake Bitcoin ad featuring Big Brother creator John de Mol appeared.

The crypto community recently spotted a bogus YouTube account impersonating Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of major blockchain startup Ripple, in club to promote a fake airdrop scam. The YouTube scammer has been asking users to send between 2,000 XRP to 500,000 XRP in society to "participate" in an airdrop of 20,000 to 5 1000000 XRP.

Some online perpetrators are even impersonating the World Health Organization in an try to steal cryptocurrency donations to fight the COVID-xix pandemic.