Facebook posts claim Tyler Perry & Oprah Winfrey handing out cash – like farming scam

ByCraig Haley

A number of Facebook posts circulating the social networking site claim that Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry are giving cash away to 500 people providing they share a post and like a Facebook page.

The posts implore readers to like the page to stand a chance of being a recipient to an undisclosed amount of money. Most of the posts – some of which have accumulated over 200,000 shares at the time of writing – have been shared by the Facebook page Tyler E. Perry Jr (@OfficialTylerP).

However the posts are part of a like-farming scam.

If You Are In Need Of Cash For Christmas Please Let Me & Oprah Help You Tomorrow 12/18. @ 1pm We Will Be Picking 500 People To Assist In Receiving Christmas Benefits * 🌲SHARE NOW TO ENTER 🌲* LIKE MY PAGE HERE 👉

Tomorrow is the big day so if you in need of cash let us help you all you gotta do to enter the drawing tomorrow @ 11am is ( SHARE ) LESS THEN 19 HOURS AWAY. SHARE SHARE SHARE. GOOD LUCK & MERRY CHRISTMAS 🌲 PLEASE LIKE MY PAGE NOW 👉 Tyler E Perry Jr.

This isn’t the first time crooks have used both Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry together. In the approach to Christmas 2016, a number of posts claimed the pair were giving away money to those who shared a Facebook post. Crooks are taking advantage of the fact that the pair appear in a number of photos together; photos that are added to these like-farming posts.


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The like-farming scam is demonstrable as such since these like-farming posts originate from Facebook pages not associated with either celebrity. In the cases of most of these posts, they come from a Facebook page Tyler E Perry Jr. which isn’t the official Facebook page of the actor and producer (despite the page having the address OfficialTylerP.) The page lacks the ‘Facebook verified’ blue tick. If Perry was endorsing or involved in such a promotion, he would naturally post it from his own verified Facebook page. And the same goes for Oprah Winfrey too.

These are like-farming scams designed to trick users into liking a Facebook page, which can then be used as a Launchpad for any number of scams or sold to third party marketing companies. As such, sharing these posts or liking these pages is certainly not recommended.