When a free product is really a raffle — the latest Facebook scam.

Ben Rothke
3 min readMar 31, 2023

Facebook is now a cesspool of scammers

Facebook has turned into a cesspool of scams.

Like the boiler rooms of old, they pop up quickly and disappear quickly.

The latest scam is where they make it seems like you get a free product. But are in fact entered into a raffle for that products.

Take this one, where is says: Store Clearance! 🎉 Get Dyson v15 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner for only $2.97! 😍 Act fast & Click “Shop Now” to Claim Yours Before They’re all Gone! ⏰

This leads to a page which makes it seem like you will get a Dyson vacuum cleaner for $2.99

Notice though after answer the questions that it takes you to this page where is covertly turns the sales into a raffle

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Ben Rothke

I work in information security at Tapad. Write book reviews for the RSA blog, & a Founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and Cybersecurity Canon.