EasyJet Airways tickets for sharing Facebook post? It’s spam.

ByCraig Haley

You won’t win free EasyJet Airways tickets for sharing a post on Facebook

A link spreading across Facebook claiming to give away free EasyJet Airways tickets for those that share a post and visit a link to “claim your prize” is a scam.

One example of this scam (there are several) can be seen below.

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easyJet just turned 20! To celebrate in style we are giving away 100 All Inclusive First Class Trips to any destination world wide where you will stay in a 5 star hotel of your choosing and to top it off we are giving each winner $10,000 in spending cash! To win simply follow the steps below.

1. Share this photo and Type the number 20 below.
2. Visit: http://chaceeforvacations.net/ to claim your trip.

Each winner will be notified by our page, remember to add our page to your favorites after clicking Like so our update shows up in your news feed!

As is typical with like-farming Facebook pages (pages that deceive people into sharing posts and following their page) this is just a scam with no free tickets really on offer. The free EasyJet Airways tickets are just used as bait to lure people into complying with the instructions on the post.

These types of like-farming scams are prolific, targeted hundreds of other brands, and often accrue hundreds of thousands of shares in only a few hours. However those that visit the links will find they have to participate in dozens of spammy surveys that will harvest their personal information and target them with spam.


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Like-farming pages are usually easy to spot. The pages purporting to give away free EasyJet Airways tickets have clearly nothing to do with the official EasyJet Airways brand since the pages lack Facebook’s blue verification tick denoting an official Facebook page.

Also the page is brand new, with no other posts. And the post implores readers to share the post onto their own timelines, which is against Facebook’s terms of service.

Read more about “share to win” Facebook scams here.

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