Free signals under your ads: the channel pitch and the words that catch it
The trading-signal comment genre from nine real examples under my ads, Meta's investment policy in its words, the words these pitches cannot avoid, and the.
Anant GuptaFounder, CommentWatchDog
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"Free signals" and "100% accurate" trading comments under your ads recruit for paid Telegram or WhatsApp channels and referral codes. Meta's rules forbid what they promise, returns "guaranteed or risk-free" and "quick returns (such as under 24 hours)". As of September 17, 2026, a link rule removes most of them as they land, since every one carries a channel address, and the words they cannot avoid catch the rest.
Below: nine real examples from my ads with their dates and the rule that removed each, why they land under ads, Meta's policy lines, the word table, the Facebook and Instagram controls, the copyable rule, and why delete rather than hide.
Nine signal pitches from my own ads
The rows are my own ads' comments, July 1 to September 17, 2026, written as they arrived, as written, links shortened, names left out.
| The comment, and its day | The pitch | Removed by |
|---|---|---|
| "Follow the 3rr.Com Signal 100%100💯 Aviator channel on WhatsApp" with a channel link (September 11) | A betting-signal channel | The URLs rule |
| "Congratulations! YOU CAN'T BELIEVE 🎉🥳🙌 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄__𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐒 👇👇🏅" with a channel link (September 6) | Free signals, bold Unicode to dodge a word list | The URLs rule |
| "Prenez votre inscription et investissez dans ce business international" with a link (September 4) | An investment scheme, in French | The URLs rule |
| "📈 আজ থেকেই স্মার্ট ইনকাম শুরু করুন, সহজ বাংলায় ট্রেডিং শিখুন একদম ফ্রি!" with an app link (September 2) | Learn trading free, in Bengali | The URLs rule |
| "I SWEAR TO GOD, ✅✅ THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE THAT GIVES ME CORRECT SIGNALS DAILY TO WIN SURE TICKETS" with a link (August 30) | A testimonial for a signal channel | The URLs rule |
| "Hello! I'm inviting you to join Binance, one of the world's leading crypto platforms. Sign up using my referral link" (August 29) | A referral code | The URLs rule |
| A Telegram address for a trading channel (August 20) | The channel alone, no words | Post cleanup |
| A name and a Telegram address for a gold-trading channel (August 9) | The same, with a name | Post cleanup |
| "📈 Join Our WhatsApp Channel!" (August 9) | The invitation alone | Post cleanup |
Six accounts with an id in the log wrote the first six; the last three arrived before the rules ran on that Page and were removed by a cleanup of the ad's backlog.
Why they are under ads
All nine sat under ads and none under a post, which is the genre's logic: a post reaches followers who know the business, an ad reaches strangers who might follow a link. The comment is the top of a funnel, the channel is the middle, and the paid tier or the referral bonus is the bottom. Meta's Prohibited Commercial Practices policy, read September 17, 2026, forbids the promises the funnel runs on: "Offers of investment opportunities where returns on investment are guaranteed or risk-free", offers "where returns on investment or compensation is partly or fully based on recruitment of others", offers "claiming or referencing successful past performance", and offers "that claim quick returns (such as under 24 hours)". The same page is honest about enforcement: "Our enforcement isn't perfect, and we may not detect all policy violations."
The words they cannot avoid
The pitch needs its vocabulary, and the vocabulary is the filter. The table marks which words appeared in the nine above and which a customer of an ordinary business might also type.
| Word or phrase | In my nine | A customer might type it |
|---|---|---|
| signals, free signals | Yes, three times | No |
| aviator | Yes | No |
| binance, referral link | Yes | No |
| sure tickets, correct signals daily | Yes | No |
| forex, crypto | No, but the genre's staples | Rarely |
| trading, invest | Yes, in Bengali and French | Yes, on a finance Page; skip there |
| 100%, guaranteed | Yes, "100%100💯" | Rarely, in a review |
| a WhatsApp or Telegram channel address | Yes, in all nine | No |
The last row is the reason a link rule does most of the work: bold Unicode dodges a word list, but a channel address cannot be disguised and still work.
Facebook: the criteria and the word list
Moderation Assist's criteria list, as it stood on my own profile on September 8, 2026, offers Link in comment, which hides any comment "that has a link", and Keywords in comments, which hides comments containing words you list; both hide only comments made after the criterion is added. The Page's own word list, from Facebook's blocked-words page, read September 17, 2026, gives the Page's list a thousand entries in any language and matches spellings of each, so "signals" also catches "s1gnals" and "#signals". What Moderation Assist hides and leaves has both criteria; comments with links has the link side in depth.
Instagram: Hidden Words
Instagram has no link criterion, so the words carry it. Instagram's Hidden Words page (read September 5, 2026) says the custom list hides comments that contain the words, phrases, numbers or emojis on it, and the writer is not told without telling the writer; the entries are the table's first four rows plus "http", "t.me" and "wa.me", which every channel address contains. Report the comment as well, since the policy above is Meta's to enforce. Instagram Hidden Words, tested has the screen.
The link rule plus a signal list
CommentWatchDog is an AI comment moderation tool that automatically hides and deletes spam and damaging comments on Facebook and Instagram ads and posts. On my Pages two rules take this genre: the URLs rule, set to Delete, which took six of the nine as they landed, and the Keywords rule with this list, one line per entry: signals, free signals, aviator, binance, referral link, sure tickets, forex signals. A Custom topics sentence, "anyone recruiting for a trading, betting or crypto channel", takes the pitch in the language the list does not know. The twelve rules is the guide.
Why a signal pitch is deleted, not hidden
A hidden comment, on Facebook's hide page, remains in front of its writer and their friends, and that is a kindness with no object here: the writer is a channel operator or a bot who will never look at your Page again, and the comment has no reader worth keeping it for. Delete, and report the account through the comment's Options so the policy above has something to act on.
Sources
- Prohibited Commercial Practices, Meta Community Standards, read September 17, 2026
- About Moderation Assist, Meta Business Help Centre, read September 5, 2026, tried on my own profile September 8, 2026
- Block certain words from appearing in comments on your Facebook Page, Facebook Help Centre, read September 17, 2026
- Hidden Words on Instagram, Instagram Help Centre, read September 5, 2026
- Hide a comment from a post on your Facebook Page, Facebook Help Centre, read September 17, 2026
- My own moderation log, three Facebook Pages, comments under ads published July 1 to September 17, 2026, read September 17, 2026
Common questions
Are "free signals" comments a scam?
They recruit for a paid channel or a referral code, and Meta's Prohibited Commercial Practices policy, read September 17, 2026, forbids what they promise, investment offers "where returns on investment are guaranteed or risk-free" and offers "that claim quick returns (such as under 24 hours)". A comment promising sure wins is the policy's own example.
Why do they appear under my ads and not my posts?
Because an ad reaches strangers and a post reaches followers. All nine of mine between July 1 and September 17, 2026 sat under ads, none under a post; the pitch borrows the ad's reach to find people who have never heard of the channel.
Which words catch them without catching customers?
The ones a coffee customer never types: signals, aviator, forex, binance, referral code, sure tickets, "100% accurate". Skip "trading" and "invest" on a Page whose customers might use them, and let a link rule take the rest, since every pitch carries a channel address.
Can a rule catch a signal pitch as it lands?
Yes. A link rule removed six of my nine as they landed, and a rule that reads meaning takes the pitch in a language the word list does not know. CommentWatchDog is an AI comment moderation tool that automatically hides and deletes spam and damaging comments on Facebook and Instagram ads and posts.
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Post: Free signals under your ads: the channel pitch and the words that catch it
This page: https://commentwatchdog.com/blog/crypto-signals-comments
Topic: Spam
Author: https://anantgupta.xyz (Anant Gupta, founder of CommentWatchDog)
Published: 2026-09-25
Updated: 2026-09-25
Summary: The trading-signal comment genre from nine real examples under my ads, Meta's investment policy in its words, the words these pitches cannot avoid, and the.
Query: crypto signals comments (0 searches a month in the US)
Tested on: September 17, 2026, Meta's policy and help pages read on the web, the moderation log of my own Facebook ads read the same day
Why this page exists: To name the crypto and forex "signals" comment genre from real examples under my own ads, with Meta's investment policy verbatim and the exact words and rule that remove it, for the reader and the assistant that meets it; there is no measured search demand, and the page exists because the genre lands under ads every week.
Plain text of this post: https://commentwatchdog.com/blog/crypto-signals-comments.md
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