Can you win a PS5 on Facebook for sharing a post? Fact Check

Posts on Facebook claim you can win a Playstation 5 and other expensive electronics for liking, commenting and sharing them.

FALSE | SCAM

Facebook posts like the one below from a page called Christmas Deals claims that users can win a brand new Playstation 5 for liking and sharing a Facebook post.

🔥 Win A PS5 in time for Christmas 🔥
One of our lucky fans will be getting a PS5 delivered straight to their door on the 10th December.
All you have to do is:
1️⃣Like
2️⃣Share
3️⃣Comment below
You must follow all 3 steps to participate
Draw is on the 8th December at 5pm
Good Luck Everyone 🤞
Note: Facebook does not endorse, sponsor or own Christmas Deals

Posts like the one above are schemes designed to lure Facebook users to data harvesting websites that exist to collect personal information of visitors in order to spam them.

In the case of the post above, once a user comments on the post they are then automatically contacted by the page over Messenger and ultimately told to visit such a data harvesting website to “enter the competition”.

However these are third party spammy websites that are not associated with the Facebook page.

It is likely that many like-farming Facebook pages will be using the recently released Playstation 5 to lure Facebook users to spam websites.

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As always, there are some sure ways to spot these types of scams.

First, the Facebook page is anonymous. It is simply called “Christmas Deals” and has no associated with any brand or company, nor does it have any contact details other than across Facebook.

Secondly, Facebook’s Page Transparency Tool reveals the Facebook pages are only a handful of days or weeks old.

Thirdly, the Facebook pages attempt to lure users off of Facebook and on to third party websites that ask for contact information such as phone numbers, emails and postal addresses, and this information is required to enter the competition. These websites are not associated with the Facebook page. For instance, in the post above, it claims the draw is on December 8th, yet the webpage we were directed to claimed the draw ended on December 31st.

We recommend avoiding these types of Facebook pages.