Spam links are spreading throughout Facebook claiming users can get a $75 Ross Stores coupon to celebrate the chain’s 100th anniversary.
An example of these links can be seen below –
However, as our seasoned readers will know, this is just a scam that leads to spammy marketing websites. Clicking through the links that you see on Facebook offering these coupons will lead to spam websites designed to lure visitors into parting with their personal information which are duly disseminated to spammy third party marketing companies, leading to a surplus of spam to whoever falls for it.
Needless to say, there are no $75 coupons on offer here, and the claim that Ross Stores are celebrating their 100th anniversary are also false. The links have nothing to do with them.
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Visitors who click through to the links and complete the subsequent surveys are giving their details away to a variety of third party marketing companies, and as such as expect a sudden surge of spam sent to their email, postal address, even their phone.
Links that assert to be offering freebies like vouchers, gift cards or coupons for a particular company’s “anniversary” is a popular way of baiting victims into giving away their sensitive information, like contact information.
We strongly recommend our readers avoid clicking through to such sites when they see these links appear on their newsfeed. They are all scams. No such coupons for these stores exist, they’re just used as bait.
