{"id":2983,"date":"2019-04-06T19:34:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2983"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Tiny-House-Giveaway-Facebook-Scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2983","title":{"rendered":"Tiny House Giveaway Facebook Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to a post that is currently appearing \u00a0on Facebook, you can win one of seven tiny houses just by liking and sharing. The post, which was published \u00a0on a Facebook Page that calls itself \u00a0&#8220;Holiday Club&#8221;, claims that the winners will be chosen at random on 21st June.<\/p>\n<p>The post makes the absurd claim that the 7 tiny houses are being given away because they are unsealed and cannot be sold. \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>In fact, the post is fraudulent. \u00a0 No houses, tiny or otherwise, are being given away. Those who participate have no chance of winning anything at all.<\/p>\n<p>The post is a typical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/facebook-like-farming-scams\/\">like-farming scam<\/a> designed to \u00a0collect large numbers of Page likes as quickly as possible. \u00a0 The scammers use the lure of attractive \u00a0prizes to trick people into liking and sharing. In this way, such fake posts can spread rapidly across Facebook and the scammers will gain a great many new Page likes.<\/p>\n<p>Once the bogus Facebook Page has substantially increased its like numbers via a scam giveaway, the scammers can then use it to launch further scam attempts, this time to a much larger audience of potential \u00a0victims.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, \u00a0 the scammers may sell the Facebook Page on the black market to other scammers. The more likes a Page has the more it will likely sell for.<\/p>\n<p>Scams like this one are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/category\/scams\/facebook-scams\/\">very common on Facebook<\/a>. \u00a0 Be wary of any post or page that promises valuable prizes just for liking, sharing, commenting, or filling in surveys. \u00a0 And, should you be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/case-just-case\/\">tempted to participate just in case<\/a> the giveaway is real, keep in mind that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/no-harm-done-think-again-4-reasons-why-participating-in-bogus-facebook-giveaways-is-not-harmless\/\">these scams are certainly not harmless<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>A screenshot of the scam post:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam-060618-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20211\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam-060618-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam-060618-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" 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=\"tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam-060618-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam-060618-1-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam-060618-1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam-060618-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tiny House Giveaway Facebook Scam Post\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam-060618-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam-060618-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam-060618-1-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam-060618-1-585x780.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/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><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/tiny-house-giveaway-facebook-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a post that is currently appearing \u00a0on Facebook, you can win one of seven tiny houses just by liking and sharing. The post, which was published \u00a0on a Facebook Page that calls itself \u00a0&#8220;Holiday Club&#8221;, claims that the winners will be chosen at random on 21st June. The post makes the absurd claim [&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-2983","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\/2983"}],"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=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/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=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}