{"id":2065,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2065"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"iPhone-X-Giveaway-Facebook-Scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2065","title":{"rendered":"iPhone X Giveaway Facebook Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Facebook Page called &#8220;iPhone X&#8221; is supposedly giving away 50 iPhone X phones to users who like, share, and comment with their desired phone colour. \u00a0 <\/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>The post, which includes an image featuring iPhones in various colours, exhorts you to hurry up and enter and promises that winners will be announced via Facebook messenger on October 27th.<\/p>\n<p>But, alas, the post is just another \u00a0Facebook like-farming scam. \u00a0 No amount of liking, sharing, and commenting will give you a chance to win an iPhone. \u00a0 Despite its claims, the Facebook Page is not giving away any iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>The fake giveaway is designed simply to gather large numbers of likes as quickly as possible. \u00a0 Once the Page has successfully built its like numbers via the bogus giveaway, it can launch further scams, this time to a much larger potential audience.<\/p>\n<p>Or, the owners of the fake Page may sell it to other scammers. \u00a0 The more likes a Facebook Page has the more it will likely sell for on the black market. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Scams like this are <a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/categories\/\">very common on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>An example of the scam post:<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hurry up, Hurry up, Hurry up!!!<br \/>\nWe are giving Only 50 iPhone X on 27th October 2017, Follow Steps!<br \/>\nStep 1) Like our page iPhone X<br \/>\nStep 2) Comment which Color you want,<br \/>\nStep 3) Share on your Wall,<br \/>\nGood Luck to everyone!<br \/>\n#. WINNERS will be contacted in Facebook Message<br \/>\n#. 50 Lucky Winners Will Be Announced On 27th October 2017<br \/>\n#. Make sure you follow steps!!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphone-x-scam-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11538\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/iphone-x-giveaway-scam\/iphone-x-scam-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphone-x-scam-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1112\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"iphone-x-scam-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphone-x-scam-1-216x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphone-x-scam-1-737x1024.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11538\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphone-x-scam-1.jpg\" alt=\"iPhone X Giveaway Facebook Scam \" width=\"800\" height=\"1112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphone-x-scam-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphone-x-scam-1-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphone-x-scam-1-768x1068.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphone-x-scam-1-737x1024.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphone-x-scam-1-500x695.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphone-x-scam-1-585x813.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This video \u00a0provides more information about Facebook like farming scams:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1170' height='659' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mJ4V66gJH04?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/iphone-x-giveaway-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/iphone-x-giveaway-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Facebook Page called &#8220;iPhone X&#8221; is supposedly giving away 50 iPhone X phones to users who like, share, and comment with their desired phone colour. \u00a0 The post, which includes an image featuring iPhones in various colours, exhorts you to hurry up and enter and promises that winners will be announced via Facebook messenger [&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-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}