Win a Samsung 1080p 40 Inch TV? SURVEY SCAM!

Posts falsely claiming that those who visit a website and complete a survey as well as share a post can win a Samsung TV are circulating virally across Facebook.

The latest fake free giveaway hoax is once again targeting electronics manufacturer Samsung. Earlier in 2013 scammers used the Samsung S4, their latest mobile phone, as bait to lure unsuspecting victims into giving out their personal information as well as circulating the scam to their friends.

And now it’s Samsung TVs under the guise of a competition from reseller Argos that scammers are now using to lure victims into this latest scam.

And there is nothing particularly new to how the scam operates. Once again a fake Facebook Page posts a photo of the alleged prize with the instructions of first sharing the photo to your friends and then visiting a website to fill in a survey which harvests your personal information making you vulnerable to further scams as well as spam communication.

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The post made from a fake page called Argos which was set up only a few hours prior


We’re giving away 100 of these Samsung 1080p 40 Inch TV’s in the next 24 hours.

Want to win? Share & Like this photo.

Good luck, 40 random shares will be chosen tomorrow where each person will get a message through Facebook notifying they have won.

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And despite the scams utter unoriginality, thousands of Facebook users are sharing the photo to their friends, often under the “just in case” reasoning. However not only are the users putting themselves at risk of further scams and spam, they are also circulating the same scam to their Facebook friends by sharing the photo in the first place.

Offers like this one do not really exist, so the best advise here is to stop sharing these photos across Facebook! To learn more about these scams and how to avoid them read our article on fake giveaway pages here.

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