Outline:
Circulating Facebook post claims that amusement park Six Flags is giving away free tickets as a means of celebrating its 70th anniversary.
Brief Analysis:
The post is fraudulent and it is not associated with Six Flags. Those who participate will never receive the promised tickets. The post is designed to trick people into submitting their personal information on suspect ‘prize offer’ websites.
Detailed Analysis:
According to a post being shared across Facebook, you can click to get 3 free tickets to the amusement park Six Flags. The post claims that the company is giving away the tickets as a means of celebrating its 70th anniversary.
However, the post is not associated with Six Flags and no tickets are being given away. It is yet another scam designed to get your personal information.
If you click on the post, you will be taken to a website that asks you to complete a brief – and utterly pointless – survey about Six Flags. Your answers will be ‘analysed’ and, lo and behold, you will be selected to win the three free tickets. In fact, no matter what answers you supply, the outcome will be the same. The survey is simply a smokescreen to make the prize claim seem more believable.
Next, you will be asked to share the website via Facebook and then send a direct link to the site to 15 of your friends. If you carry out these two steps, you are in fact promoting the scam across Facebook and playing right into the hands of the scammers.
After you have completed the two steps, you can then click a button, ostensibly to claim your free tickets.
However, instead of a ticket claim form, you will be told that you must verify your entry by completing a survey. The page will present you with a list of survey links to choose from.
The links lead to third-party websites that offer the chance to win prizes in exchange for participating in surveys and providing your name and contact details. However, fine print on the pages will explain that the information you provide will be shared with site sponsors and marketing firms. So, soon after participating, you will begin receiving unwanted and annoying phone calls, text messages, emails, and letters peddling various products and services.
The scammers who created the bogus Six Flags giveaway will earn commissions each time somebody enters his or her personal details on one of the survey sites.
And, no matter how many surveys you complete, you will never get to claim the free tickets, which never existed in the first place.
For the record, Six Flags is not 70 years old in 2016. The first park opened in 1961.
Six Flags has been targeted before in similar scams.
Last updated: July 20, 2016
First published: July 20, 2016
By Brett M. Christensen
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References
Facebook Survey Scam – Free Six Flags Tickets
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