Please read this article for our latest information on the Daily Deal Facebook page.
Our readers have been asking about a Facebook page titled “Daily Deal” that publishes a constant stream of posts claiming that you can win various prizes by commenting and sharing on their posts and visiting the web address dailydeal2017.com to enter.
To be clear – DO NOT interact with this Facebook page. The competitions this Facebook page posts do not exist, and act as bait to lure their followers to spammy, third party marketing companies that are designed to trick visitors into entering subscriptions they don’t need or to harvest their personal information so they can be spammed.
The competitions posts by the Facebook page “Daily Deals” are simply not real, yet because they lure their followers into sharing the posts and following their Facebook page, they have managed to accumulate hundreds of thousands of followers.
This scheme is essentially a combination of like-farming (the ability of accumulating followers using deception) and survey scams, where visitors are tricked into signing up with marketing companies under false pretenses.
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We’ve warned about this type of like-farming many times before and it remains one of the most common types of like-farming methods to circulate across Facebook.
These fake competition scams have been around for years, yet despite their lack of originality, they still continue to fool thousands of desperate Facebook users looking for easy freebies for sharing Facebook posts. Read more about like-farming here.
So once again we remind our readers never to interact with spammy Facebook pages that post constant streams of “share this post and win this prize” type posts that we so often encounter on the social networking website, and never complete surveys of questionnaires to get a prize. These posts are never worth the hassle, and if you follow the instructions on the posts, you will end up with spam on your newsfeed, your email, your phone, your postal address and you may even wind up getting charged for unwanted subscriptions.
Please, stop falling for them.