"Get KFC Gift Card for FREE! (limited time only)" “Win Free Gift Cards For Mcdonald's”

"Get KFC Gift Card for FREE! (limited time only)" “Win Free Gift Cards For Mcdonald's” survey scam spreads viral across Facebook.

Free gift card scam is not new to Facebook and its users. In the past few years we have seen lot of similar scam messages. Below given are some of the famous gift card scam messages,

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 scams. To know more about survey scams check this link http://www.hoax-slayer.com/what-is-a-survey-scam.shtml

Below shown is the screenshot of the scam post "KFC is currently giving away $100.00 gift cards to all facebook” posted on one of the affected facebook user’s wall.

Clicking on the link in the scam post will take you to a page like shown below. The page is designed to look like facebook page but it doesn’t belong to facebook always check the address bar. Here it is hxxp://freefboffers.net/kfcoffer.html

Following the steps given in the above page will invoke malicious java script in the background and will post the scam content in your Facebook wall.

Upon sharing the scam post in your fb wall it will pop up a window and depending upon your location / country it will say "to claim your free gift card you have to complete the survey first".

For every survey completed, spammers will earn money. You will not receive any gift card like promised. It’s all well designed to trick you fall into this scam and fill out surveys for them to earn money.

Similar to this one is the “Win Free Gift Cards For Mcdonald's” survey scam. A screenshot of this survey scam is shown below to make you aware.

Here it’s not a website, it’s a fake event created in Facebook. Mainly created to make people believe and fall prey to these scam. The above given steps 1 and 2 are just to invite your friend’s into this scam and to keep spreading this scam message among Facebook users. Step 3 takes you to a BlogSpot page like shown below where it will prompt you to fill surveys.