{"id":297,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"'Outdoor-Play-House'-Facebook-Giveaway-Scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Outdoor Play House&#8217; Facebook Giveaway Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to a post that is being shared on Facebook, you can win a children&#8217;s outdoor playhouse just by liking and sharing the post, adding the comment &#8220;done&#8221;, and liking the originating Facebook Page. <\/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<h2>Here&#8217;s what the post looks like:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8418\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/outdoor-playhouse-facebook-giveaway-scam\/outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1280\" 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=\"outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1-188x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1-640x1024.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8418\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1.jpg\" alt=\"Outdoor Playhouse Giveaway Scam\" width=\"800\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1-768x1229.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1-500x800.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/outdoor-playhouse-giveaway-facebook-scam-1-585x936.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, alas, the supposed giveaway is a typical Facebook like-farming scam.  \u00a0The Facebook Pages that the post comes from are not giving away the promised prize and those who participate have no chance whatsoever \u00a0if winning anything at all.<\/p>\n<p>The very same giveaway post has appeared on several different scam Facebook Pages in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The bogus giveaway is designed to accumulate large numbers of Facebook likes as quickly as possible. Once the Page using the bogus giveaway \u00a0post has collected a large number of likes, it can then be reused to launch other types of scam.<\/p>\n<p>Or, it might be sold on the black market to other scammers. The more likes a Facebook Page has acquired \u00a0the more it can be sold for. \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<p>Like-farming scams continue to be <a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/category\/scams\/facebook-scams\/\">very common on Facebook<\/a>. There many versions, all offering different prizes as bait to potential victims. Other versions offer tech gear, store coupons, holidays, cars, and even houses as prizes.  \u00a0None of the promised prizes actually exist and there are no winners other than the scammers themselves.<\/p>\n<p>This Hoax-Slayer YouTube video explains more about how like-farming scams work:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mJ4V66gJH04\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\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\/outdoor-playhouse-facebook-giveaway-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/outdoor-playhouse-facebook-giveaway-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a post that is being shared on Facebook, you can win a children&#8217;s outdoor playhouse just by liking and sharing the post, adding the comment &#8220;done&#8221;, and liking the originating Facebook Page. Here&#8217;s what the post looks like: But, alas, the supposed giveaway is a typical Facebook like-farming scam. \u00a0The Facebook Pages that [&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-297","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\/297"}],"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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/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=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}