All posts tagged "Fake Giveaways"

Have you seen a post allegedly from Beats by Dre, claiming to be giving away products that can’t be sold because they were unsealed? Is this real or fake? Today we’ll take a look.

A ploy on Facebook is the creation of fake Facebook pages offering phony giveaways of “unsealed” products. Today we’ll take a closer look at this trend and some of the more prominent examples.

Have you seen your friends liking and sharing a post on Facebook promising to give away a Samsung Galaxy S4? Today we’ll take a closer look at this post and others like it.

We’ve seen our share of fake iPad and Apple giveaways on Facebook. The latest version states there was some glitch in the packaging of Apple products, which will result in users being able to receive a free iPad. Today we’ll take a closer look at this scam.

Have you seen a link posted on social media that advertises free UGG boots? If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and this “giveaway” is definitely not true.

A recent trend on Facebook is the appearance of new pages which promise free Apple products to anyone who likes and shares their content. The problem is, they are completely bogus.

Have you been contacted on Twitter or Facebook, and told that you’ve won free tickets to One Direction in concert? Perhaps VIP backstage passes? Before you circle your calendar, you may want to look at the fine print. Let’s take a look at what’s going on here.