Can you win a 2019 Range Rover for sharing Facebook post? Fact Check
A Facebook post claims you can win a 2019 Range Rover Supercharged V8 for sharing and commenting on it.
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An example can be seen below.
Bad news for Kiera Dawson who won our last range rover but failed to tell us she lived outside of United Kingdom and Ireland. So with that being said our only choice would be to give this gorgeous brand new range to someone that shares/comments by 3pm Thursday. The fortunate winner selects their favorite color. After Visit http://www.range4x4sport.com to Validate Your Entry!
The post is fake, and is another fake Facebook giveaway post that operate by tricking Facebook users into engaging with a Facebook post by claiming to give away a prize that doesn’t exist.
Most posts of this ilk – just like the one above – will try and get Facebook users to visit external websites that are designed to harvest your personal information, giving them to spammers so they can spam you.
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The usual red flags are present that give the game away.
– The Facebook page that made the post isn’t a verified Facebook page. There is no blue tick. As such, the page isn’t a verified, official page belonging to Range Rover, or anyone else. Legitimate promotions will be launched from a brand’s verified page.
– Facebook’s “Page Transparancy” tool shows that the page was only created a few days ago. Scams and fake competitions are nearly always launched from recently created pages.
– The page asks you to share the post to stand a chance of winning. Requesting a user share a post is against Facebook’s terms of service, and page admins have no way of determining if a user does indeed share a post.
– The website the page requests visitors’ visit has nothing to do with Range Rover. It also directs visitors to bait-and-switch scams. This means the “prize” changes to something else. Such schemes also request contact information from those that sign up, leading to spam.
It’s a scam. Don’t sign up “just in case”. Such scams are often involved with serious crimes like identity theft, subscription scams and advance fee fraud. At the very least, you’ll be giving away your contact information to spammers, and sharing the same link to your newsfeed putting your friends at risk of falling for the same scam.
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