{"id":73905,"date":"2012-05-03T06:05:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T06:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/?p=73905"},"modified":"2012-05-03T06:05:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T06:05:35","slug":"facebook-scam-free-ray-ban-sunglasses-and-toms-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/facebook-scam-free-ray-ban-sunglasses-and-toms-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook scam &#8211; Free Ray-Ban Sunglasses and TOMS shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is\u00a0flooded\u00a0with new scam messages which say &#8220;Free Ray-Ban Sunglasses and TOMS shoes&#8221;. This time scammers are using popular brand names like Ray-Ban sunglasses and TOMS shoes to trick\u00a0Facebook users.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rayban_Fake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73911\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rayban_Fake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tomsshoe_fake1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73909\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tomsshoe_fake1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a\u00a0similar\u00a0sort of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/?p=73515\">Facebook scam<\/a> wherein free merchandise is advertised. The scam lures users by giving them the prospect of exciting offers and then redirects them to online\u00a0surveys.<\/p>\n<p>In this scam, if you click on the links you will be taken to pages which try to trick you into sharing the link further amongst your Facebook friends.\u00a0Additionally,\u00a0it asks you to submit your email ID as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tomsshoe_Dis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73910\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tomsshoe_Dis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In some cases,\u00a0scammers\u00a0may ask you for some more information like your mobile number, credit card details, age, sex and even your postal\u00a0address. In this way innocent users fall to spot potential identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend that\u00a0Facebook\u00a0users stay away from such scams. Furthermore, installing the best anti-spam software on a machine is something that will provide added protection against such malicious threats over social networks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is\u00a0flooded\u00a0with new scam messages which say &#8220;Free Ray-Ban Sunglasses and TOMS shoes&#8221;. This time scammers are using popular brand names like Ray-Ban sunglasses and TOMS shoes to trick\u00a0Facebook users. This is a\u00a0similar\u00a0sort of Facebook scam wherein free merchandise is advertised. The scam lures users by giving them the prospect of exciting offers and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,24],"tags":[64,42,43,44,25,29],"class_list":["post-73905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-malware","tag-facebook-applications","tag-facebook-scam","tag-facebook-malware","tag-online-survey","tag-phishing","tag-social-engineering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}