Identify Gift Card and Voucher Scams on Facebook

If one of your Facebook friends is promoting a shopping voucher, give away or gift card, you might as well think first before clicking on the link because click-jacking scams  that promise to give away gift cards and vouchers abound online.

How to Identify Gift Card and Voucher Scams on Facebook

One way to identify gift card and voucher scams is to consider whether the offer is too good to be true. If it is, then it likely is a scam.  Googling for information about the offer can also help.

Things to Do when You See Fake Offers on Facebook

1. Ignore the message. The link will likely lead you to another page that may prompt you to answer survey ads or download malicious application.

2. If you think the offer is legitimate, make sure to use Google for to find further information and confirmation that the offer is legit.
3. If the offer turned out to be a fake, flag the message as spam by clicking the x mark button on the right side of the message.

4. Help keep your friends safe from gift card and voucher scams on Facebook by informing them about fake offers.

Below are some of the widely circulated fake gift card and voucher offers online:

Eat at McDonalds for Free

With thousands of branches and chains worldwide, McDonald's is undeniably one of the most popular, if not the most successful of the fast food restaurants worldwide. It is currently the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants with presence in 119 countries serving approximately 68 million customers everyday.

Unfortunately, McDonald's popularity also have drawbacks since the iconic name has repetitively been used in spreading false humors and bogus offers in the social networking site Facebook. Together with such Starbucks, Best Buys and a number of popular other consumer brands, hoax news and fake offers from MacDonalds is often used to lure innocent people to answer surveys or provide their personal details to online scammers.

If you love the popular fastfood chain McDonalds, be sure not to fall to survey scams that distribute fake MCDonals meal vouchers to dupe facebookers into reposting the scam and answering surveys:

Eat at McDonalds for FREE! (limited time only)
McDonald’s is currently giving away free meal vouchers to all Facebook users!!
Walmart is giving away $1,000 gift cards

Wouldn’t it be nice if Walmart is giving away $1,000 gift cards by simply asking people to share or do rewards survey on Facebook? As good as this may sound, however, any messages you see in the social networks telling you of Walmart distributing gift cards for almost everyone is a hoax.

£250 Asda Shopping Voucher
Target $500 Gift Card Giveaway
Applebee's Gift Card
$500 Woolworths Voucher Scam

$500.00 Victoria Secret Gift Cards

One of these new scams appear to target ladies who may drool on the supposed Victoria’s secret merchandises that they dream of getting their hands to if they receive the supposed free gift cards on Facebook. By how the messages are reshared on Facebook, it appear that the gift cards are distributed by the popular lingerie brand for Facebook users.
Get Dunkin Donut Gift Card for FREE! (limited time only)

Regal/AMC Movie Tickets
The biggest and most awaited movies of the year is hitting the cinemas this summer: The Avengers and the Men In Black 3, for example. Scammers, however, are also looking forward to the excitement generated by these movies since they have been using supposed free Regal/AMC movie tickets as bait to make people fall to survey scams.

Free Walgreens Gift Card

Scammers on Facebook keep luring and deceiving people to click the links they spread in the social network by making use of bogus give aways. Apparently the Christmas season and the coming new year make the Facebook give away scams perfect for making people visit survey scam sites or provide their personal information such as their emails and telephone numbers.

$25 Tim Hortons Gift Card

Costco Gift Card

Amazon.com Gift Card

Here’s the newer variation of the Outback gift caRd Facebook scam, a message that claims you’ll get free Tim Horton gift card/ coupon if you share the message on your wall and do some survey.

Free Cheese Factory Gift Cards

Argos Gift Cards

Free KFC Gift Card 

If you are rooting for a KFC lunch, don't trust the messages circulating in Facebook to give you free meals. Scammers are yet again distributing fake gift card messages in the social network the latest using the name of KFC. Here's the misleading messages being reshared by non suspecting Facebook users at the moment:

Get $100 KFC Gift Card (limited time only) CLICK HERE & CLAIM NOW
KFC is currently giving away $100 gift card to 10,000 lucky Facebook users!

KFC already denied the claims of this fraudulent give away via a statement in their Australian Facebook Page:

Hi all KFC Australia Fans,
We have had a number of questions and posts to the page regarding the $100 gift voucher offer currently being circulated on Facebook.
We can confirm that this is NOT an official offer and apologise for any inconvenience that this may have caused. If you have installed an application or connected the offer to your account we would advise you remove it immediately. Thank you.

If you wonder why bogus vouchers and gift cards are getting rampant on Facebook, scammers actually earn money whenever people answer surveys that they prompt whenever links to these misleading gift cards are clicked. Do not fall to these give away scams on Facebook.

Free $100 McDonald’s Gift Card for Mother’s Day

Sharing to mothers in your network a message on Facebook that promises to give free $100 McDonald’s gift card for Mother’s Day isn't really a nice way of saying Happy Mother's day to your mom friends because this is a scam. If you're a mom, don't get duped into believing MCDonalds is giving away giftcards for you today because this is not true.

$1000 Visa Gift Card 

The link will ask you to answer surveys supposedly to determine whether you are qualified for the visa gift card.
Eat for Free at Pizza Hut 

After the the Starbucks voucher scam and the free $250 Outback Steakhouse gift card scam, another bogus offer is yet circulating on Facebook.  This time, the message says you can eat for free at the popular pizza restaurant Pizza Hut if you share or repost the message and its link, leave a comment and provide the information you are asked for.

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Fake Celebrity Deaths on Facebook

News of death among movie stars and singers can spread like wildfire on the internet. This is why scammers and hoaxers frequently use celebrity names to get attention for their clickjacking scams and rogue browser plugins and to spread false information online. Here are just some of the  fake celebrity death news that spread on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter:

Lady Gaga found dead in hotel room

Fans of Poker face singer Lady Gaga seem to be the likely victims of a clickjacking scam that spread on facebook. Fake news about the singer being found dead in a hotel room obviously take advantage of the singer’s popularity to make people click on links that will lead them to questionable links or pages.

International Rockstar Legend Jon Bon Jovi dead at 49
Here are the misleading news that you might have encountered posted by one of your friends:

Rockstar Jon Bon Jovi (John Francis Bingiovi, Jr) was pronounced dead today afternoon after paramedics found him in coma at his Empress Hotel, city and law enforcement at Asbury Park, NJ sources told The Times after World Christmas Tour Concert on The Bamboozle Festival, North Beach Asbury Park.

New Jersey Fire Department- First Aid Captain Douglas Gray told The Times that paramedics responded to a 911 call from home. When they arrived, Bon Jovi was not breathing.

Chuck Norris dies at age 71! Not a Joke

Even the tough and mighty Chuck Norris is not immune to being used in Facebook scams.

[video] Chuck Norris dies at age 71! Not a Joke.
Worldnews77551.com
See the video to find out how he died. News today of Chuck Norris death at age 71 has been met with confusion and humour but sadly its true.

Rihanna is dead

Fans of singer Rihanna should not fret and should not believe a  hoax news spreading in networking sites. The singer is alive and well.

 Sad News Once Again, Singer and Songwriter RIHANNA passed away some Hours ago in a Plane crash on her way to Germany to shoot her new music video... Our Prayers and Condolences go out to her Family! Pass This message on So that people would know how short life is and that fame and fortune can't buy you life.

Keanu Reeves dies in snowboard accident

While news of singer Whitney Houston's death is true, messages circulating information that Matrix actor Keanu Reeves died in a snowboard accident is a hoax.

Robert Pattinson dies in car accident

Did Robert Pattinson died in an accident? The Twilight actor is in the news lately following his girlfriend Kristen Stewart's caught-in-the photo affair with a married man. As of the moment, a round of articles about the young actor is circulating in Facebook and the messages claim that the actor died in an airplane accident.

Adam Sandler is dead

The veteran comedy actor Adam Sandler is the latest victim in a series of online killings online-- by hoaxters. Hoax messages are spreading in popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter that Adam Sandler is already dead but the truth is, the actor is alive and well.

This is an ugly joke perpetrated by likely the same people who have spread the death news of other actors and singers like Morgan Freeman, Bill Nye, Rihanna, Bon Jovi Johnny Depp and Lil Wayne. Even Cuban leader Fidel Castro has also been victimized by a death hoax.

Hoax and false rumors such as this can be mitigated by verifying the authenticity of news read on social networks by using popular search engines like Yahoo and Google before reposting or resharing news.

If you see any of your friends posting the fake celebrity death news on Facebook, make sure to mark the message as spam.

1. Find the x mark beside the post and click report/mark as spam.


2. Share this post to your friends so they learn about fake celebrity deaths on Facebook.

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Rihanna "S3X" Tape Facbook Scam

A new Facebook scam is circulating around the social network. The "Rihanna "S3X" Tape" scam with it's variant the "Kim Kardashian "S3X" Tape" spreads like wildfire over emails and social networking sites. The scam starts with an infected email or post on Facebook then automatically posts comments on your friend's status messages. When someone intrigued by the link and clicks it he is then taken to an external link that takes him or her to a verification page which then takes him or her to another page requiring that the person take a survey or trial to view the video. There are no actual videos. It is just a ploy or a tool for them to hijack you Facebook accounts and spread the link.

To remove the Rihanna "S3X" Tape Facbook Scam or the Kim Kardashian "S3X" Tape, Please follow the instructions given on this link (click here).

Pass on this critical information to all your friends that may be infected by this scam.  Many thanks and stay safe.

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Unique and Geeky Christmas Cover Images for Facebook

Tis the Season to Use Christmas Cover for Facebook

Here are some nice Christmas cover images we have found online. You may visit their respective sources for more images you can use for your social networking profile. Merry Christmas!

Best for Star Wars fans and geeks is this Stormtrooper gift-giving image from coverslike.com:



From addacover.com:

From cower.me

From addcovers.com:

From tweeting.com

From kate.net:

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Facebook will end on January 15th 2013: The Truth

Another Facebook closing down news is taking rounds: Facebook will end on January 15th 2013.

FACEBOOK WILL END ON JANUARY 15TH, 2013!

ALO ALTO, CA – Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in January. Managing the site has become too stressful.

“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”

 

The news is spread by Weeklyworldnews.com, a site known for distributing fanciful stories disguised as news articles. Other stories published by Weekly World News are alien stories and other otherworldly and tabloid stories.

The news of social networking giant Facebook shutting down is not new. People, for example, have spread news about Facebook closing down on March 15, 2011 and then July 2012 but the close down never happened because the claims are not true.

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Get the Black Facebook

Get the New Facebook Black

How do you change the color of your Facebook or use the black Facebook? These features sound cool and you may have just learned about it from someone who have posted about it on Facebook. Unfortunately, these features do not yet exist.

If you see a post on Facebook about a feature that allows you to change your Facebook color or one that allows you to get the new black Facebook, be advised that this is a scam.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="306"] A perspective of how a black Facebook theme may look like by rames.blogspot.com.[/caption]

Clicking on the get the new black Facebook link may direct you to a page where you will be prompted to do surveys. You may also be prompted to install a rogue facebook app that won't really give you the ability to change the color of your Facebook but instead will spam your friends on your behalf about this fake color changing feature.

Scammers spread misleading information about fake and non existent features on Facebook such as the Pink Facebook, dislike button and black Facebook to lure people to give their personal details and contact information. Scammers may use these details for their own advantage. Victims are also popularly redirected to survey scam pages. The scammers earn whenever people answer of complete those surveys.

If your account starts to spam your friends with the new black Facebook messages, here's what you should do.

Go to your account settings, then apps.



Remove the rogue facebook app by clicking  x mark beside it.



Make sure that you also remove all the spammy posts the app has posted in your timeline.

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Adam Sandler is Dead Hoax

The veteran comedy actor Adam Sandler is the latest victim in a series of online killings online-- by hoaxters. Hoax messages are spreading in popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter that Adam Sandler is already dead but the truth is, the actor is alive and well.

This is an ugly joke perpetrated by likely the same people who have spread the death news of other actors and singers like Morgan Freeman, Bill Nye, Rihanna, Bon Jovi Johnny Depp and Lil Wayne. Even Cuban leader Fidel Castro has also been victimized by a death hoax.

Hoax and false rumors such as this can be mitigated by verifying the authenticity of news read on social networks by using popular search engines like Yahoo and Google before reposting or resharing news.

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Free Twilight Vampire Contacts Scam

 

The final installment of the Twilight Saga movie series, the second part of Breaking Dawn will be released this month and scammers are already taking advantage of the Twilight fan base to set up Facebook pages with bogus offers.

A Twilight Facebook page, for example, with now over 35 thousand fans is offering bogus freebies: free Twilight Vampire contact lenses in different colors: golden, red and black. These, in exchange of liking and sharing the page.

“7 DAYS UNTIL BREAKING DAWN PART 2 IS OUT!,” the Facebook post reads. “To celebrate we’re giving away FREE Twilight Vampire contacts!”

The link for claiming the Twilight freebie, however, redirects to a phishing page that prompts you to enter your email, address and contact number. Be cautious of giving your personal details and contact information as scammers may use these to bombard you with more spam/scam.

How do you claim the free Twilight freebie you earned on Facebook?

Unfortunately, you won't receive any Twilight merchandise promised by bogus pages. Here's what you should do:

1. Report the fraudulent Twilight page by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking the "report page" link.



2. Make sure that you remove the scammy free Twilight vampire posts you have shared by clicking the x button beside the post.

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Raspberry Ultra Drops Facebook Scam

Has any of your friend posted a status message that looks more like an advert promoting Raspberry Ultra Drops? Then your friend's facebook account is likely compromised by a rogue application that causes his or her account to post spammy messages.

How to Deal with the Raspberry Ultra Trim Scam

Here are the things that you should do if your Facebook account is auto posting and sending  the Raspberry Ultra Drops Facebook scam message that looks like the one below:

Raspberry Ultra Drops is cool stuff! Really rocks! lost 6 pounds within a week

If you want to lose weight you should try Raspberry Ultra Trip! I am down 18 lbs as of today and I've only been doing it for 2 weeks. It's amazing. www.projetosegurancahumana.org/raspberry.html

1. Change your password as soon as possible.


2. Review applications you use. Go to Privacy settings > Ads, Apps and Websites > Edit Settings and click the x mark to remove the suspicious app. If you do not know which app to remove, try to remember the app that you may have used or granted permission before your account started posting the Raspberry messages. 


3. Remove all your spammy posts in your wall or your friends' walls.

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Free $500 Woolworths Voucher Scam

Be cautious of clicking attached links in messages in Facebook that promise to give away free $500 Woolworths voucher. This is yet another bogus give away scam that was likely distributed to make people do surveys that in turn will bring profit to the scammer. You will not receive any voucher from Woolworths so it is best not to waste your time answering those surveys.

Make sure that you mark the the free $500 Woolworths voucher message as spam.

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Is Robert Pattinson Dead?

Did Robert Pattinson died in an accident? The Twilight actor is in the news lately following his girlfriend Kristen Stewart's caught-in-the photo affair with a married man. As of the moment, a round of articles about the young actor is circulating in Facebook and the messages claim that the actor died in an airplane accident:

California - A commercial airliner crashed shortly after taking off from the Los Angeles International Airport, injuring 48 and killing 23 passengers, including actor Robert Pattinson and Actress Kristen Stewart.

The plane, which was bound for New York, caught fire shortly after taking off about 8:30 a.m. according to TMZ.
The cause of the accident is under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA have said that the plane was registered with Southwest Airlines. State-run news media said seven survivors were in stable condition at the intensive care unit of the USC University hospital in Los Angeles. Officials say they have not conclusively found the source of the fire and are still investigating.

Here's another variation of the news:

Very sad news, especially for all the Twilight fans, Robert Pattinson died in a single car accident on route 80 between Morris-ville and Roswell.

Is Robert Pattinson Dead?
Robert Pattinson is alive. Notice that different articles report about different causes of death. The death news is likely perpetrated by some pranksters wanting to take advantage of the actor's popularity in the news this week.

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How to Play with Other SimCity Social Players without Compromising Your Privacy

The much awaited SimCity update has arrived and it's on Facebook. What makes SimCity social more enjoyable and more addictive is you actually get to play with friends. With the Simcity championships, you also get to compete with other players. Nonetheless, completing some quests, building attractions, factories and businesses, and expanding your land area require that you have plenty of friends who can send you collectibles and land permits.  If you only have a few friends and you can't wait to build new buildings or complete quests, you might be tempted to add Simcity social players that you do not personally know of and who are similarly looking for simcity players that they can also play with.

Where to Find Simcity Social Players
If you consider to do add people you do not personally know of so you can play simcity social, you can easily find people asking you to add them up and play with them on the simcity social official forum and fan page.

Remember to:

• Carefully choose who to add. When adding people, check their profile and try to get a gauge if they really are simcity players and if they are safe enough to add up.

• Introduce yourself when adding people up. "I'm a simcity player and I am looking for people to play with" will do.

Protecting Your Privacy
Make sure to limit these people's access to information you post on Facebook. To do this:

• Add simcity social players to the Restricted friend's list. People on this list can only see posts and profile information you have decided to make public.

• Check your Privacy settings-->Control Your Default Privacy and make sure that your default post is only visible to friends. You may also want to

• Update your chat privacy settings. Go to chat sidebar-->Advanced chat settings. Under "All your friends see you except", add Restricted list.


• Make sure to review the people you have add up regularly and remove spammy and suspicious friends.

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Scam Alert: Facebook is Having a Promo!

If you have seen a Facebook note or message that says something like this: Facebook is Having a Promo! I just went shopping and spent like $1000 for free! and which, when clicked,tells you that you can get a free $1,000 visa gift card, be aware this this is another Facebook scam. Scammers are distributing bogus free visa gift cards so they can get people to answer survey ads.

But It's Just a Survey
The surveys may appear harmless and some people, in the hopes of getting the freebies, still go ahead regardless of warnings. Survey ads may ask you for information such as your address and you contact number that scammers can use to send mores spam to you. In worst cases, these information may even get into the hands of identity thieves who may use the details for their own advantage.

Again,

• Facebook is not having a promo and you won't get any free visa gift card for answering surveys.


• Warn your friends about this scam by sharing this post on Facebook.

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Your Amazon.com Password has Been Changed Email

Your Amazon.com Password has Been Changed Email: Did It Come from Amazon?
Did you receive a message that says Amazon.com changed your password? If yes, you can verify if the email is real by trying to log into your Amazon account. Make sure that you do not click on the link that is attached to your email. Instead, go to your browser and type in the Amazon's url.

If you find that the claims of the email is false and you have likely received a phishing email, make sure to mark the email message as spam. Below is how you do it if you are using gmail:

This is an important message from Amazon.com

As a precaution, we've reset your Amazon.com password because you may have been subject to a "phishing" scam.

Here's how phishing works:

A scam artist sends an e-mail, which is designed to look like it came from a reputable company such as a bank, financial institution, or retailer like Amazon.com, but is in fact a forgery. These e-mails direct you to a website that looks remarkably similar to the reputable company's website, where you are asked to provide account information such as your e-mail address and password. Since that web site is actually controlled by the phisher, they get the information you entered.

Go to amazon.com/phish to read more about ways to protect yourself from phishing.

To regain access to your Amazon customer account:

1. Go to Amazon.com and click the "Your Account" link at the top of our website.

2. Click the link that says "Forgot your password?"

3. Follow the instructions to set a new password for your account.

Please choose a new password and do not use the same password you used with us previously.

Thank you for your interest in Amazon.com

Sincerely,

Amazon.com

Please note: this e-mail was sent from an address that cannot accept incoming e-mail. To contact us about an unrelated issue, please visit the Help section of our website.

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Is the £250 Asda Shopping Voucher on Facebook for Real?

Did somebody just post this message on their Facebook wall?

Get Free £250 Asda Shopping Voucher Now.

If one of your friends is promoting a free £250 Asda shopping voucher, give away or gift cards, you might as well think first before clicking on the link because a scam is currently circulating in the social network promising to give away freebies from ASDA.

What You should Do
1. Ignore the message. The link will likely lead you to another page that may prompt you to answer survey ads or download malicious application.

2. If you think the offer is legitimate, make sure to google for further information first to confirm.
3. Flag the message as spam by clicking the x mark button on the right side of the message.

4. Help keep your friends safe from scams like this £250 Asda Shopping Voucher by sharing this post on Facebook.

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Facebook Warns Users with Fake and Multiple Accounts

Many Facebook users have reported receiving pop up messages that advise them that the social network has detected they are using multiple accounts.

Warning: Our Systems Detected You Have Multiple Accounts
It looks like you have more than one account on Facebook. Facebook is a community where people use their real identities so you always know who you’re connecting with. Maintaining multiple accounts is a violation of our Terms and could result in all of your accounts being disabled. Please remove this account and help us keep Facebook safe and enjoyable for everyone.

Some users complained and were worried about the warning because there are those who received the message who only have one account and do not use fake and multiple accounts on Facebook.

Apparently and based on reports by Facecrooks, Facebook is currently testing a system that gives warning to users who have opened multiple accounts. The social networking giant, however, says that they are still working on this system to be more accurate and they are only notifying possible violators. Facebook also says they are not taking any action on violators for the time being "so there’s no need for anyone to worry".

Facebook May Block Users Using Fake and Multiple Accounts
Nevertheless, it is a violation of Facebook's terms of service to use fake names and operate multiple accounts. Those who maintain fake and multiple Facebook accounts will likely have their accounts blocked or removed once the social network adopts stricter measures to deal with violators. Removal of fake and multiple accounts may be done by Facebook to combat spam and malicious activities perpetrated by fake Facebook users.

What to Do if You Have Multiple Facebook Accounts

1. Delete old and unused Facebook accounts that you have. Make sure to inform your friends in your old account that you will be merging all your contacts and activities in one Facebook account. If you do not want to lose posts and comments in your old account, you may want to download a copy of your Facebook data.

To do this, go to Account --> Account Settings and click "Download a copy of your Facebook data".



2. If you maintain a different account to manage a Facebook page, you may want to edit "admin roles" and add your Facebook account with the same admin roles and privileges.

3. Tell your friends to do something about their multiple Facebook accounts ASAP. Share this post on Facebook.

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Crimestoppers ATM PIN Reversal Hoax

The ATM PIN reversal hoax is gaining momentum in the social networking site Facebook. This hoax was originally spread through emails and is now making its rounds as tagged images in Facebook. It claims you simply have to key in your personal identification number (PIN) or atm password backwards in case of a robbery to call the attention of the authorities and police will be dispatched to the location of the crime.

The Hoax

ATM PIN Number Reversal - Good to Know!!

If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your PIN # in reverse.

For example, if your pin number is 1234, then you would put in 4321. The ATM system recognizes  that your PIN number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the  machine. The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown  to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to the location. All ATM’s carry this emergency sequencer by law.

This information was recently broadcast on by Crime Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it.

Please pass this along to everyone.

This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends.

The Truth

This could have been an ingenious way of protecting ATM users from robbers. Unfortunately, this atm feature does not exist yet. The hoax message gives false hopes to ATM users that they can call the police in case of robbery situations. Crimestoppers already denied that the email and the supposed details about the ATM panic code originated from them.  Read the official  statement of Crimestoppers here.

What to Do if You Received the ATM PIN Reversal Hoax

• If you were tagged in an image that contains this hoax, untag yourself.


• Report the image by clicking the x mark beside it.


• Inform your tagger and your friends that this is a hoax by sharing this post on Facebook.

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Facebook Security Violation: What to Do if You Fell to this Scam

Why would Facebook security find your posts insulting to other Facebook users? You may have asked this when you received a Facebook security violation message that tells you your account will be disabled unless you confirm your account. The good thing is you did not likely receive a message from Facebook. You may have just received another fake message distributed by scammers in the internet.

The Facebook Security Violation Scam
Below is an example of the fake Facebook security violation message:

WARNING : Your account is reported to have violated the policies that are considered annoying or insulting Facebook users.system will disable your account within 24 hours if you do not do the reconfirmation.
Please confirm your facebook account below:
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http://recovery-info-security.at.hm/
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Thanks.
Facebook Security
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Verified Official Page™ ✔ All Rights Reserved ©

In a gist, this message pretends to be from the real Facebook security team so it can more effectively scare you of losing your account. The scammers take advantage of your concerns to make you do things that will profit or benefit them.

Once you attempt to "confirm your Facebook account", you will likely be presented with a fake Facebook page that can phish out important information from you such as your password. You will likely have more problems accessing your account once you give your login details to the scammers.

What to Do if You Fell to the Facebook Security Violation Scam
1. If your received the message as a private message or chat, ignore and delete.
2. If you already answered forms and you have been tricked to give your Facebook username and password, change your password as soon as possible.

Go to Your Account Setting.


Select password>> edit password



3. You should also warn your friends about this Facebook security violation scam by sharing this post on Facebook.

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Who Viewed Your Timeline?

Did a friend send you a request to approve an application so you can see who viewed your timeline? This and variations of the messages you will find below actually lead you to fake Facebook applications. Once you give these apps access to "post in your behalf", you will likely see them posting spammy and often misleading messages on your wall.

The app and the messages may also prompt your friends to visit a page or a site where they are directed to answer survey ads.

Wow, we can already see who viewed our profile. Try it here
Wanna know who your top followers or profile viewers are? Check it out here

How can You Stop these Malicious Apps from Spamming Your Wall?
1. You should flag the messages generated by this apps as spam:



2. Make sure that you also revoke the Who Viewed Your Timeline apps' access to post messages in your behalf. Go to settings and remove the rogue application:



3. Warn your friends that timeline profile viewer applications do not yet exist and the ones spreading on Facebook are scams. Share this post on Facebook.

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Starbucks International Promo

Scammers are now using popular brand names like Starbucks when sending messages to their potential victims. In one of the random emails they send, for example, the scumbags claim that Starbucks is giving out cash gifts to short listed candidates. The email tells that you need to validate your email and requires you to send your name, mobile phone number, your date of birth and a scanned copy of your passport or driver's license.

Do not be misled by the message. By sending your personal details and giving a copy of your passport and driver's license to the anonymous people who claim to be somebody else endangers you of becoming a victim of identity theft.

From: STARBUCKS INTERNATIONAL PROMO
Subject: UK CUSTOMERS (VALIDATE YOUR EMAIL)

DEAR UK CUSTOMERS,

STARBUCKS IS GIVING OUT CASH GIFTS TO SHORTLISTED EMAIL CANDIDATES. THIS IS A WAY TO SAY THANK YOU.

YOUR EMAIL HAS BEEN SHORTLISTED AMONGST OTHERS AS WINNERS OF THIS YEAR STAR BUCKS EMAIL COMPETITION. YOUR EMAIL WAS SELECTED RANDOMLY WITH SEVEN OTHERS AMONGST MANY UK RESIDENTS EMAILS ENTERED INTO THE COMPETITION.

YOUR REFERENCE NUMBER IS XWT66577488BCK. A LUMP SUM OF TWO HUNDRED THOUSANDS POUNDS WILL BE SHARED AMONGST THE 8 EMAILS SHORTLISTED WITHIN 48 HOURS.

TO VALIDATE YOUR EMAIL, PLEASE REPLY TO verification@starbucksint.com WITH THE FOLLWING INFO:

NAME:
FULL ADDRESS:
MOBILE PHONE:
DATE OF BIRTH:
A SCANNED COPY OF YOUR PASSPORT OR DRIVERS LICENCE:

STEPHEN ROBERTS
PROMOTIONS MANAGER
Starbucks Coffee Company,

 

What to Do if You Receive the Starbucks International Promo Email

1. Ignore the message

2. Mark the email as spam



3. Warn your friends not to fall to this scam. Share this post to your Facebook and twitter friends.

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