⁍ Fraudsters from Albania to Vietnam are posting about U.S. politics to build fake audiences, Facebook said on Wednesday.

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⁍ Facebook said the Nov. 3 election had become a common lure to trick users into visiting online stores or websites laden with pay-per-view adverts.

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– The US election is just over a month away, and Facebook says it’s already seeing a rise in “financially motivated” disinformation aimed at tricking people into visiting sites with pay-per-view ads. Facebook says it has shut down four networks that posted about US politics from Albania to Vietnam, Reuters reports. “If you are a financially motivated actor who’s trying to make money based on clicks, you are going to use whatever content is going to get you eyeballs,” the company’s head of cybersecurity policy says. “And obviously, there’s a lot of attention being paid to what’s happening in the United States around the election.” Facebook says the networks operated by unconnected groups in countries including Botswana, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Macedonia, and the Philippines. “A minority of posts from some of these networks and their ad-heavy websites focused on politics in Myanmar, including support for the military and references to ethnic tensions,’ Facebook said in its report. “We did not see evidence of these networks being politically motivated.”