No, you
can't get free Audi R8 cars on Facebook – it's a scam
This article is about
how people are being scammed of their personal details in return for a “Free
Audi R8”. You can’t get a free Audi R8 car by liking a Facebook post. Which sounds like an obvious
statement, but according to security firm Bitdefender, more than 200,000 users
of the social network have fallen for it.
Entrants
were asked to like the page and share its post on their own timelines, while saying
what colour car they’d like if they won. Bitdefender claims that the page has
attracted nearly 180,000 likes and more than 210,000 shares so far. Some of its
posts include links to videos, which is where the scam gets worrying:
Bitdefender says that some of the sites hosting those videos are also running
the JS:Trojan.JS.Likejack.A code that can be used for “clickjacking on hidden
commercials”.
My opinion about
this is that it seems straightforward and people shouldn’t be failing to see
that is very unlikely that you would just be giving a “Free
Audi R8”.
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