Dec 29, 2011

A free gift card to all facebook users CLICK HERE & CLAIM NOW is a Survey Scam



Walgreens is currently giving away 1 gift card to 10,000 lucky Facebook users!..
Cheesecake Factory is currently giving away $100.00 gift cards to all facebook users!!
Shell is currently giving away $100.00 gift cards to all facebook users!!
Get $1000 Kohls Gift Card for FREE! (limited time only)
Get Free SimCash in 5 minutes ! (Limited time offer)
FREE $500.00 Victoria Secret GiftCard!! (limited time only)


All these are survey scam messages targeting Facebook users mostly of US region. Spammers are using the famous brand names to   attract people and make them fall in their trap.



When you click on these scam post you will be redirected to the site 'cheesecakekhalo.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com' like seen below,


Here the Gift cards remaining is just a counter running using Java Script. It is just to tempt you click on the 'post to profile' button. 



When the 'post to profile' button is clicked it will post the scam message on your FB wall and all your friends will be viewing it in their news feed and they will be tempted to click on them. Below seen is the script used by the scam to post the message,



After sharing the scam in your wall it has script to pop up a new window opening the site "http://cheeeeesecake.info/cake.php"



The cake.php contains link to the affiliate marketing site www.cpalead.com/exitpopup.php.



At last they will ask you to complete the surveys depending upon your location. There is nothing like free gift cards only the spammers will earn money because of your innocence.



The spammers earn commission for every survey that is completed. Their work is to drive traffic to the online survey sites and make people complete them. 

Below seen are similar scam post spreading across FB,

"Dollar General is currently giving away free gift cards to all facebook users!"



"Get 1 F.R.E.E Walgreens Gift Card! (limited time only) CLICK HERE & CLAIM NOW"




"Kohls is currently giving away free gift cards to all facebook users!"



"Get $100 Shell Gas Card for FREE!(limited time only);Shell is currently giving away free gift cards to all facebook users!"


"TGI Friday's is currently giving away $100.00 gift cards to all facebook users!!"


"Costco is currently giving away $1000.00 gift cards to all facebook users!!"


"why pay for SimCash when you can get it for free? Now claim your 320 SimCash for free !Limited time promotion only"


"Victoria's Secret is currently giving away gift cards to all facebook users!!"


"Get a Free $1,000 Walmart Gift Card!"


Facebook is currently giving away 1 gift card to 10,000 lucky Facebook users!


"Welcome to the only place where you can get 2000 facebook credits for FREE! Get yours today!"


"CVS Pharmacy is currently giving away free gift cards to all facebook users!"


"Get a Free Black MacBook Air!"


"Dunkin Donut is currently giving away $100 gift cards to all facebook users!!"


Starbucks is celebrating 40 years and giving away $50.00 gift cards to all Facebook users!


Domains participating in this Scam event are,

shellgas1.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com, 
tgi2.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com, 
wallgreens007.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com, 
needgas.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com,
zwalgreens.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com,
free.greatlivenews.com, siimsociial.weebly.com, cheeeeesecake.info/cake.php, cheesecakekhalo.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com, siimsociial.weebly.com, freeoneszz.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com, 2000creditsnewoffer.blogspot.com, www.wouchr.com, freecreditsgiftcard.blogspot.com, 50.116.79.168/~hugefb/starbuck/.

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