{"id":2911,"date":"2019-04-06T19:34:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2911"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Stolen-Christmas-Lights-Facebook-Joke-Post---Hoax-Slayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2911","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Christmas Lights Facebook Joke Post &#8211; Hoax-Slayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"inner-post-entry\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nMessage circulating on Facebook is supposedly addressed to someone who attempted to steal Christmas lights from the house of the person who posted the message but inadvertently left his or her phone behind while still logged into Facebook.  \u00a0The message suggests that people click \u00a0a link to the thief&#8217;s \u00a0Facebook profile in the hope that someone will know who it is.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nA number of people who have seen this post have raised concerns that it may be a scam of some type and have been reluctant to click the link.  \u00a0Of course, such caution when following links is understandable and commendable.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, however, the post is just a harmless \u00a0joke that people post to prank their Facebook friends. \u00a0If you are logged into Facebook, clicking the link will always open YOUR Facebook profile.  \u00a0This might give you a momentary start given that it might appear that you are being falsely accused of trying to steal Christmas lights.<\/p>\n<p>And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all there is to \u00a0it.<\/p>\n<p>The same prank \u00a0has been deployed via many other Facebook joke posts.  \u00a0Some versions may ask you to click \u00a0a link in the hope of identifying a person that others are desperately \u00a0searching for.  \u00a0Others may suggest that you click to see the profile of a user who is &#8220;hot&#8221;, &#8220;weird&#8221;, or &#8220;really geeky&#8221;.  \u00a0In fact, there is endless scope for inventing new versions of these prank messages.  \u00a0 As in the Christmas flavoured variant \u00a0shown below, the link in the prank posts will always \u00a0open your own Facebook \u00a0profile. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HSNet Article Center --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"5727909035\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"example\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Example:<\/b><\/span><br \/>\nATTENTION:<br \/>\nTo the punk who tried to steal our Christmas lights last night&#8230;..you dropped your phone while you were still logged into Facebook&#8230; I don&#8217;t have to call the cops if you come back and let me talk to you&#8230;I&#8217;d rather just find out why, and avoid putting someone in jail for a failed attempt at theft. Here&#8217;s the profile link to their Facebook&#8230; Does anyone local know who this is???<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.fb.com\/profile.php?<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/stolen-christmas-lights-facebook-joke-post\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/stolen-christmas-lights-facebook-joke-post\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline: Message circulating on Facebook is supposedly addressed to someone who attempted to steal Christmas lights from the house of the person who posted the message but inadvertently left his or her phone behind while still logged into Facebook. \u00a0The message suggests that people click \u00a0a link to the thief&#8217;s \u00a0Facebook profile in the hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}