Win a Toyota 4Runner 2016 for sharing a Facebook post? It’s a scam
Despite what a Facebook post may claim, you’re not going to win a free Toyota 4Runner 2016 just for sharing a post across Facebook. This is a fake giveaway like-farming scam.
The Facebook post implores readers to share it onto their timelines to stand a chance of winning. It also claims that you need to like the page that made the post and comment what color vehicle you want.
An example of the post can be seen below.
For the first time in Facebook history, We decided to give away 3 Toyota 4Runner 2016. Three Lucky Winners randomly selected on September 23,2016!
Simply follow the steps below to enter the competition
1->Like this page
2->Like and Share this post
3->Comment which color you want
Winners will be choosen on September 23 2016 randomly and messaged on public via our fan page.
Good Luck
Our regular readers will not be surprised to learn that is nothing more than a typical like-farming scam using a fake giveaway as bait to lure people into following a page. Like-farming is the process of deceiving or exploiting Facebook users into liking a Facebook page, as well as sharing & liking the posts that it publishes. In this case using fake giveaways. Learn more about like-farming scams here.
In this instance, the page that made the post – named “New Toyota 4Runner” – is one such like-farming page. It is luring Facebook users into following the page with a fake prize as bait. There really are no prizes on offer, yet at the time of writing the most popular post made by the page has over 250,000 shares.
In this case the page that made the post is clearly a typical like-farming Facebook page. It lacks the blue verification tick that Facebook gives to pages that are officially linked to a brand, and thus the offer has nothing to do with the official Toyota name.
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The page, at the time of writing, has made only a handful of posts, most of which are of a similar vein (like and share to win a prize) and thus the page can easily be dismissed as a like-farming page.
Like-farming pages are spam. They publish spam, and in many cases can also promote social engineering scams designed to trick Facebook users into compromising their own computer security. As such, it is important to avoid engaging them and following them, since you undermine your own computer security.
You can learn more about spotting “>like-farming pages using fake giveaways in our blog post here.
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