Fake Walt Disney World Facebook Pages Being Used to Scam People with Free Trips
Posted by: Timothy Tibbetts on 03/19/2014 07:03 AM [ Comments ]
It’s been a cold winter so it’s a natural fit for someone to like Disney to offer a free all- expense paid trips to Walt Disney World.
In this case, it is not Disney but a scam page trying to gain enough likes to launch further scams or even sell the page to the black market where someone will try the same thing.
The page even claims “Welcome to the official Facebook Page of the Walt Disney World Resort! Learn about Park updates, news, and special backstage info here.” As you can see, it looks legit:
The posts read:
"Good news were giving you and 50 other people a chance to win an all paid for Florida, Disney World vacation with passes to every park. Each winner will receive 4 tickets each for a date of your choice with $2,000 spending money.
To enter just share & like this photo. (Comment to double your chances)
Good luck, competition ends in 48 hours. Winners will be posted."
They are doing this by calling the pages “Walt Disney World.” with a period at the end. I counted 5 of these fake pages, and even reported them myself, with a total of about 16,000 likes so far and one post alone having 18,000 shares so it’s working.
If you want to like Walt Disney World, they have closer to 13.5 million likes on their Facebook page.
Here is one of the actual posts as well as a screenshot of all the fake pages we found under Facebook search:
The page even claims “Welcome to the official Facebook Page of the Walt Disney World Resort! Learn about Park updates, news, and special backstage info here.” As you can see, it looks legit:
The posts read:
"Good news were giving you and 50 other people a chance to win an all paid for Florida, Disney World vacation with passes to every park. Each winner will receive 4 tickets each for a date of your choice with $2,000 spending money.
To enter just share & like this photo. (Comment to double your chances)
Good luck, competition ends in 48 hours. Winners will be posted."
They are doing this by calling the pages “Walt Disney World.” with a period at the end. I counted 5 of these fake pages, and even reported them myself, with a total of about 16,000 likes so far and one post alone having 18,000 shares so it’s working.
If you want to like Walt Disney World, they have closer to 13.5 million likes on their Facebook page.
Here is one of the actual posts as well as a screenshot of all the fake pages we found under Facebook search:
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