Free Costco Gift Card for all Facebook users? Scam spreads quickly

Scams are sadly a fact of life if you’re a Facebook user, and scammers are constantly dreaming up new lures designed to trick users into clicking and sharing their revenue-generating links.

One of the schemes we frequently see being used on Facebook is the “free gift card/voucher” scam, where users are tricked into believing that a company is giving away gift cards to Facebook users.

Here’s the latest, spreading rapidly on Facebook right now…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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