Facebook post offering 2 Mercedes from Kevin M James is a SCAM

A Facebook post is claiming to offer to give away 2 Mercedes cars on May 1st 2017 for those users who like and share the post as well as comment “Done”.

Our regular readers will not be surprised to learn that this is a typical like-farming Facebook scam designed to trick users into liking and sharing a Facebook post so it goes viral across the social networking site.

The post can be seen below.

My name is Kevin M.James
I am Owner of Mercedes.
We are giving 2 Mercedes On May 1st, 2017
2 Lucky Winners Will Be Announced On May 1st !!
Step 1) Like this post and Page
Step 2) Share on your wall
Step 3) Comment Done
The giveaway is open worldwide, you can enter once a day (spam accounts will be ignored). Winner will not be announced publicly – they will be private messaged – so make sure you check your DMs on the 1st!
Good Luck to everyone !

It appears that Mr. Kevin James has made the transition to Mercedes recently, since it was only a few months ago the same scammers were using this name to peddle a fake competition post for Ford Mustang cars.

It is important to remember that these are scams, and there are no Mercedes cars on offer here. Criminals use these posts to boost their like count. From there, the scammers can launch any number of scams.

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For example, they can direct Facebook users who like their posts to spammy marketing websites that attempt to harvest their personal information, or these pages are even used to trick Facebook users into handing over money which is then stolen.

It is important not to interact with these sorts of scammy posts. Not only do you put yourself in the crosshairs of crooks, but by sharing the posts, you expose your friends to the same scams.

Read more about these types of Facebook like-farming scams here.