{"id":213,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"'Facebook-Award-2016'-Advance-Fee-Scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Facebook Award 2016&#8217; Advance Fee Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEmail purporting \u00a0to be from Facebook claims that you have won $900,000 in the &#8216;Facebook Award Pragram&#8217; for 2016.<\/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><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Brief Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe email is not from Facebook and you \u00a0have not won $900,000. There is no such thing as the \u00a0&#8216;Facebook Award Pragram&#8217;  \u00a0(or even &#8216;Program&#8217;).  \u00a0The email is a typical advance fee scam designed to trick you into sending your money and personal information to criminals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"example\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Example:<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Subject: Congratulations&#8211;You have been awarded $900,000 by Facebook<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/facebook-awards-2016-advance-fee-scam-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-1426\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1426\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/facebook-award-2016-advance-fee-scam\/facebook-awards-2016-advance-fee-scam-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/facebook-awards-2016-advance-fee-scam-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,961\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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=\"facebook-awards-2016-advance-fee-scam-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/facebook-awards-2016-advance-fee-scam-1-250x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/facebook-awards-2016-advance-fee-scam-1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1426\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/facebook-awards-2016-advance-fee-scam-1.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook Awards 2016 Advance Fee Scam\" width=\"800\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/facebook-awards-2016-advance-fee-scam-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/facebook-awards-2016-advance-fee-scam-1-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/facebook-awards-2016-advance-fee-scam-1-768x923.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/facebook-awards-2016-advance-fee-scam-1-166x200.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\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<p>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Detailed Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAccording to this email, which purports to be \u00a0from Facebook, you are the lucky winner of \u00a0$900,000 USD via the 2016 &#8216;Facebook Award Pragram&#8217;. Supposedly, the award is designed to encourage the usage of Facebook all over the world. It comes complete with a Facebook logo, bar code, and an apparent stamp and signature of the &#8216;Facebook Financial Director&#8217; Mark Scott.<\/p>\n<p>The email, which \u00a0includes &#8216;claim details&#8217; such as a batch number and reference number, instructs you to contact Facebook&#8217;s &#8216;accredited attorney&#8217; Lucas Swat with your details &#8216;for immediate claim procedure and payment code&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>However, the email is certainly not from Facebook and you have not won $900,000 as claimed. There is no Facebook Award for 2016 or any other year. In fact, the \u00a0email \u00a0is a typical advance fee scam designed to steal your money and personal information.<\/p>\n<p>If you fall for the ruse and contact the &#8216;accredited attorney&#8217; as instructed, you will soon receive a reply claiming that, before your prize can be processed, you must send money to cover obligatory fees such as banking and legal costs, tax, or insurance.  \u00a0The scammer will claim that you must pay these fees in advance or your prize will not be processed. He \u00a0will explain that, for legal reasons, the fees cannot be paid out of the prize money itself. And, he will warn that, if you do not pay all of the requested fees by a specified date, you will forfeit your prize and it will be given to somebody else.<\/p>\n<p>The scammer will likely \u00a0continue asking for more and more money to cover more and more &#8211; totally imaginary &#8211; fees until you run out of funds \u00a0or finally realise that you are being scammed.<\/p>\n<p>And, by this time, the \u00a0scammer \u00a0may have gathered a large amount of your personal and financial information. He may have \u00a0asked you to supply this information in order to prove your identity and allow the processing of your &#8216;prize claim&#8217;. The scammer may \u00a0later use this information to steal your identity.<\/p>\n<p>As such scams go, this one is fairly \u00a0sophisticated. Some recipients may be taken in by the seemingly official presentation of the scam message. But having gone to the trouble of \u00a0tricking up their scam email with logos, signatures, bar codes, and the like, the scammers shoot themselves in the foot via the glaring spelling error in the name of the supposed award (&#8216;Pragram&#8217; rather than &#8216;Program&#8217;). Nevertheless, at least a few recipients may miss the spelling error or, despite the error, still belive that the \u00a0email really is from Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Advance Fee Lottery Scams - International Lottery Scam Information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/email-lottery-scams.html\">Advance fee lottery scams<\/a> like this one are very common and people all around the world still fall victim to them. There \u00a0have been <a title=\"Facebook Promotion, Lottery and Award Scams\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/facebook-promo-advance-fee-scams.shtml\">many variations<\/a> of the <a title=\"Facebook Grant Award Advance Fee Scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/facebook-grant-award.shtml\">Facebook award<\/a> or lottery scam. Remember, there IS no Facebook lottery or award program and any message that claims that you have won such a lottery or award is sure to \u00a0be an advance \u00a0fee scam like the one I describe here.<\/p>\n<p>\n<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>\n<p class=\"date\">Last updated: March 30, 2016<br \/>\nFirst published: March 30, 2016<br \/>\nBy Brett M. Christensen<br \/>\n<a class=\"foot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/about.shtml\">About Hoax-Slayer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ref\">References<br \/>\n<a title=\"Advance Fee Lottery Scams - International Lottery Scam Information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/email-lottery-scams.html\">Advance Fee Lottery Scams &#8211; International Lottery Scam Information<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Facebook Promotion, Lottery and Award Scams\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/facebook-promo-advance-fee-scams.shtml\">Facebook Promotion, Lottery and Award Scams<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Facebook Grant Award Advance Fee Scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/facebook-grant-award.shtml\">Facebook Grant Award Advance Fee Scam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/facebook-award-2016-advance-fee-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/facebook-award-2016-advance-fee-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline: Email purporting \u00a0to be from Facebook claims that you have won $900,000 in the &#8216;Facebook Award Pragram&#8217; for 2016. Brief Analysis: The email is not from Facebook and you \u00a0have not won $900,000. There is no such thing as the \u00a0&#8216;Facebook Award Pragram&#8217; \u00a0(or even &#8216;Program&#8217;). \u00a0The email is a typical advance fee scam [&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-213","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\/213"}],"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=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/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=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}