Free £40 Tesco Voucher Giveaway Facebook Scam

According to this post, which is currently circulating rapidly on Facebook, large retailer Tesco is giving away vouchers worth £40. The post urges you to click to get your free voucher.

It features a photograph that supposedly depicts one of the giveaway vouchers.

However, the post is fraudulent. It has no connection to Tesco whatsoever, and those who participate will never receive the promised voucher.

Here’s what the scam post looks like:

The message is a typical Facebook survey scam that is designed to trick you into divulging your personal information on suspect websites.

If you click the post, you will be taken to a website that first asks you to complete a brief survey about Tesco and then pretends to analyse your entry to see if you have won a voucher.

In fact, regardless of what answers you give in the survey, you will always be told that you have won a voucher. The web page will then claim that, before getting your free voucher, you must click a Facebook “share” button, add the comment “Thanks”, and like the associated Facebook Page.

But, if you carry out these steps, you are helping the scammers promote their fraudulent material and exposing your Facebook friends to the scam as well.

And, even after liking, sharing, and commenting, you will still not get the promised voucher.

Instead, you will be told that you must click a link to visit a third-party website, ostensibly as a means of verifying your entry.

Once on the linked site, you will be asked to fill in surveys and supply your name and contact details, supposedly as a means of going into the draw for further prizes.

But, the information you supply will be shared with “site sponsors” and marketing firms who will subsequently inundate you with unwanted emails, phone calls, text messages, and letters.

In recent years, Facebook scammers have used Tesco’s name in a number of similar scams. And scammers have used the names of many other retail companies in similar fake voucher giveaways.

Be wary of any message that claims that a particular store is giving away free vouchers in exchange for liking, sharing, and filling in surveys.