Outline:
Various Facebook Pages claim that you can win a Chevrolet Camaro by sharing a promotional photo, adding a comment with your desired car colour, and clicking a link.
Brief Analysis:
The Facebook Pages are fraudulent. Those who participate in the supposed giveaways have zero chance of winning a Camaro or anything else. The fake giveaways are designed to trick Facebook users into submitting their personal information on dodgy prize websites.
For the second time in facebook history we are giving away a Chevrolet Camaro to one winner that we will select on 5 september, completely at random.
Would you like to join this amazing giveaway for a chance to own a brand new Camaro ? Simply follow the steps below to enter the competition :
1. Share this photo
2. Comment below your desired color
3. Click the following link –> [Link Removed]
The winner will be messaged via inbox message
Good Luck.
Detailed Analysis:
According to several Facebook Pages that are currently spawning “giveaway” posts across the network, you can win a Chevrolet Camaro just by sharing one of the posts, adding a comment specifying which colour vehicle you would like should you win, and clicking a link to finalise your entry. The posts feature photographs of Camaro cars decked out in ribbons and claim that the winners will be selected at random on a specified date.
However, the Facebook Pages – and the “giveaway” post that they generate – are fraudulent. No amount of sharing, commenting, and clicking will ever give you the chance to win the promised Chevrolet Camaro. There are no prizes and the only winners are the scammers who created the bogus Facebook Pages in the first place.
By instructing people to share and comment as a condition of entry, the scammers ensure that the fake prize posts will be seen by an ever widening number of Facebook users.
And, if you click the links in the scam messages, you will be taken to various dodgy “survey” websites that offer the chance to win further prizes in exchange for submitting your name, email address, home address, and phone numbers.
But, legal clauses included on these websites state that, by participating, you are agreeing to share your personal information with site sponsors and third-party marketing companies who will “contact you via email, phone, text or post with more interesting offers”. Thus, you will soon be inundated with unwanted and annoying marketing material.
And, no matter how many surveys you fill out or offers you sign up for, you will never get to claim your Chevrolet Camaro prize entry. Given that the prize never existed to begin with, this is hardly surprising.
Meanwhile, the scammers who created the fake Camaro giveaway Pages will earn commissions each time somebody provides information on one of the survey websites.
Scams like this one are very common. Almost identical “Chevrolet Camaro giveaway” scams have regularly appeared on Facebook since at least 2013. And, alternative versions of the scam have claimed that they are giving away several other kinds of luxury vehicles.
In this Hoax-Slayer YouTube video, we cover a very similar scam that falsely claims to be giving away a Range Rover rather than a Camaro:
Last updated: August 30, 2016
First published: August 30, 2016
By Brett M. Christensen
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References
Chevrolet Camaro Giveaway Survey Scam
What is a Facebook Survey Scam?
Facebook Survey Scams
Hoax-Slayer YouTube Channel
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