A series of spammy Facebook pages are purporting to offer a free Ford Mustang for those users who like the post, share it on their wall and comment “done”.
The posts come from a Facebook page called Mustang Pasion, and read –
My name is Kevin M.James
I am manager of Ford Mustang.
We are giving 2 Ford Mustang On February 1st 2017
2 Lucky Winners Will Be Announced On February 1st !!
Step 1) Like this post
Step 2) Share on your wall
Step 3) Comment Done
Good Luck to everyone !
However there is no Kevin James as mentioned in the post. Once again, this is the latest example of Facebook like-farming gone viral. The competition is fake, set up by spammers who are trying to lure Facebook users into following a Facebook page by getting their Facebook posts to go viral.
The aim of these scams is to acquire as many followers for their Facebook pages as possible so they can later be targeted with other types of more profitable spam, or even scams like identity theft.
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We discuss like-farming is more detail here and explain the various disguises it can take. We also discuss this type of fake competition like-farming through this link here which we recommend giving a read if you haven’t already.
Remember, to avoid these scams, do not engage with Facebook pages that do not represent a actual brand of the product that is offered as a freebie. The Facebook pages in these cases are not marked with the blue verification tick, and a simple scroll down the pages reveals these pages have only been created days prior to posting these spammy “offers”.
Also, any post imploring you to share it on your timeline to quality for winning is likely to be a scam since this is a violation of Facebook’s terms of service regarding promotions.
