Beware The “Weekly Deals”; Scam Facebook Page
The original site is no longer online; links go to the Internet Archive copy.
The claim
“Weekly Deals” Facebook Page claims that you can win various prizes such as Airstream trailers, iPads, and smart TVs just by liking, sharing, commenting, and clicking a link to “validate your participation”.
What the fact-checkers found
The Weekly Deals Page is fraudulent. The Page is not giving away any of the items listed. There are no prizes and no winners.
The bogus prize posts are scams designed to trick you into spamming your friends with the same fake giveaway and divulging your personal information on fraudulent survey websites.
Weekly Deals is just one in a stable of closely linked – and equally fraudulent – Facebook Pages that all promise participants the chance to win fabulous prizes just for liking, sharing, commenting, and filling in surveys. One very similar scam page is called “The Weekly Deal”. Another goes by the name of “Daily Deal”. These Pages tend to cross promote each other’s fraudulent material and are most likely all operated by the same set of scammers.
Report continued below…
This video from the Hoax-Slayer YouTube Channel discusses a similar survey scam attempt that promises participants the chance to win a Range Rover:
Refer to the following resources for further details about such scams:
What is a Facebook Survey Scam?
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