Facebook post claims you can win $5 per Facebook friend – Fact Check

ByCraig Haley

A Facebook post that was once falsely claiming to give money from a lottery win to those that shared a Facebook post has been edited to claim you can earn $5 for every friend you have on Facebook.

The post can be seen below –

You can make $5 for every friend you have on FACEBOOK!!
With A FREE app- https://link.dosh.cash/3TTmauSC1P -for LIMITED TIME ONLY 😱 💰 That’s right FREE MONEY!!!
1 Friend 💁🏽♀️=$5 💸 💵
10 Friends 🙋🏾♂️=$50 💵
100 Friends 🤷🏻♀️=$500 💸
……on and on it goes!
**There’s no cost whatsoever so you don’t have to pay anything** This is literally FREE!!!
More details? SHARE this post & Comment “FREE” below and I’ll personally message you!!

The post was published by a popular like-farming spammer going by the name Billy Rogers. The post above was originally purporting to give away money from a $3.4 million lotto win to those that shared a Facebook post, which was fake.

(Look above at the edit history of the post.)

Now its claiming you must share a post to get $5 for every friend on Facebook.


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What is it?

The post is promoting a Facebook “cashback” app called Dosh that claims to offer a cashback service when you go shopping – you need to give the app your card details to track your shopping. It does offer a referral service where you can earn money from your friends, but your friends must first download the app and link the app to their credit or debit card.

As such, the claim you can make $5 for every friend you have on Facebook as long as you share a Facebook post is more than just a little misleading.

The Billy Rogers account in this case is a like-farming account full of misleading or exploitative posts.

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