Facebook posts are spreading across the social networking website that claim you can win a “Luxury RV” for sharing a post.
The posts claim that the page – called Infinity Cars – are giving away a “Roulotte RV” (Roulotte in French for Trailer or Caravan) and Facebook users can win if they like and share the post as well as like the Facebook page that published the post.
The post is an example of like-farming using a fake competition as bait. The post can be seen below –
We are giving away “Roulotte Rv ” On 19st April..
Like and Share this Post,
comment “Done”
❤ Winner Must Like our page
The post uses a fake competition to lure people into interacting with it and sharing it across Facebook, which ultimately allows the Facebook page that made the post to accumulate followers.
Posts that claim you can win prizes for liking and sharing them are one of the oldest like-farming tricks in the book. It allows spammers to set up Facebook pages and get social media users to share their posts for them, users who believe that in doing so they stand a chance of winning a prize. However the competition is fake, and just a ruse to get these posts to go viral.
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The Facebook page in the meantime accumulates followers. These pages can later either be sold to marketing companies or used to launch other spam campaigns or even sinister Internet scams. It is also likely that the post above could be edited by the like-farming spammers to including a link to a spammy marketing webpage.
There are no Roulotte RV vehicles on offer here. It’s all been made up to get Facebook users to interact with a Facebook post.
We have been warning our readers of these types of scams for a long time and still many people continue to be duped by them “just in case” they’re true. However these scams often lead to victims being targeted with excessive spam and even identity theft. Do not share these links on your own timeline as you are only putting your own friends at risk of the same scam, and remember to delete them if you do fall for this scam.
