Lately there have been a a lot of scam “fan” pages popping up that I have noticed, especially this holiday season. Of course, I have seen a few this past year, but in the past week alone, I have received quite a few invites to pages promising to give me a free item. Most of them have one several things in common:
– Offer to give a product for free for joining
– Ask that you invite all of your friends on Facebook
– Complete a Survey
Some of the offers include shirts or even laptops. As I have mentioned before – free is suppose to be without expecting anything in return in the first place. They are clearly scams to generate money from surveys. What you can do is not encourage behavior by not joining or filling out the surveys. You can also report the pages to Facebook for spam advertising. It is a waste of time for you as you will never receive what was promised, especially if you might take up an offer on the surveys that might be difficult to get out of without purchasing anything.
Have you seen these types of scams or others? What others have you seen?
i haven't seen anything about scams on there.but i am glad you said something!
I guess it depends on how much you use Facebook and how many friends you have. For example, I have over 1700 there, and some of them are from my old high school, college, colleagues, family, and my FB gaming app buddies. I get so many invites and when I saw them, I decided to write about it to inform not just them, but others.
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