You won’t win a vacation to Bora Bora for sharing a Facebook post
A Facebook post claiming to be offering a free vacation to Bora Bora and $3000 cash spending money for those that share the post onto their timeline is spreading across the social networking website. However it is a fake giveaway like-farming scam.
The Facebook post implores readers to share it onto their timelines to stand a chance of winning the free vacation
A screenshot of the post can be seen below.
We’re flying one person off to the Bora Bora along with 3 friends staying in one of our 5 star villas + $3,000 spending cash.Want to win?Just share this post,one share will be chosen at complete random,Then winner will be announced on 20th Sep! Like our page for updates!
The aim of this post is to lure people into sharing the post onto their timeline, thus helping it spread across Facebook. This will result in the Facebook page that published the post – a page called Bora Bora Vacation – accumulate followers, who can subsequently be reached with further schemes or even scams once they follow the page.
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Like many like-farming pages, the Facebook page that published this post is an obvious scam page. It contains no informational posts, only photos of holiday destinations stolen elsewhere from the Internet, and the people who operate the page are anonymous – there are no company or contact details should you wish to get in touch with the people behind the page.
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