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Are Messenger prizes real? Is Facebook's reward program legitimate? These are the questions many people are concerned about when receiving these prize-winning messages on Facebook. To understand more about receiving rewards from Facebook's customer appreciation program, receive Facebook 2018 rewards, let's refer to the article below.
Scamming with Facebook reward messages
Suddenly receiving a message about winning a grand prize worth millions of dong
Facebook 2018 prize-winning messages are on the rise. Ms. N.N living in Da Lat recently received a message from an unfamiliar account stating, 'FACEBOOK NOTICE. Congratulations! Your messenger account has been lucky to win the grand prize from the 2018 customer appreciation week event. Your Messenger account with the winning code KH68ZL79 has been randomly selected by the system, confirming your prize. Your prize package includes: 1 Honda SH 150i motorcycle (Vietnam), 1 gift voucher worth 200,000,000 VND. Congratulations once again. You are the lucky winner of the 'Grand Prize' in this event ...'
Upon reading this Facebook 2018 prize-winning message, Ms. N.N felt skeptical about receiving a reward without doing anything, so she did not believe or comply with the instructions in the message. Additionally, she asked friends and family about this message, discovering it to be a highly sophisticated scam.
With such sweet words, not everyone exercises caution like Ms. N.N.
Similar to Ms. N.N, many Facebook and Zalo users occasionally receive messages from Facebook Messenger's customer appreciation program. Among them, some have followed the instructions in the messages and ended up losing money instead of receiving the promised rewards.
Receiving Facebook 2018 rewards: easy money gone wrong
It's not just the sweet talk playing on people's love for money that gets them; many Facebook users get curious and follow the instructions to 'complete the profile process on the website before contacting support staff for clearer guidance.' Like Ms. N.A, after providing all personal information and contacting support, she was asked to submit 3 million VND for the original profile fee by topping up phone credit. Then, someone called asking for an additional 10 million VND to be deposited into the bank for them to transfer 200 million VND. With the promise of a large sum, over 10 million VND seemed insignificant, so she complied. After submitting, they demanded more money, and that's when she realized she had been scammed, falling victim to this sophisticated fraud.
Ms. N.A was fortunate; many others have fallen victim to the elaborate schemes, going as far as completing the scammers' final steps and transferring hundreds of millions of VND without receiving any rewards.
Identifying the Facebook 2018 Prize-winning Message Scam
It can be said that the Facebook 2018 customer appreciation messages are an old, not-so-sophisticated scam. Scammers exploit trust and greed for easy gains. In this scam, when users access to provide personal information, scammers will request users to submit a fee using various methods such as topping up phone credit, bank transfer, etc.
Not stopping there, some smarter scammers create fake websites. Once users fall into the trap and provide all personal information, scammers will use the user's account to send spam messages to the user's friends online, asking for money or to buy phone cards on behalf of the user.
To prevent this situation, you need to protect your social media accounts securely, avoid clicking on malicious content, unfamiliar websites, especially not clicking on any links in the Facebook 2018 prize-winning messages.
Besides identifying scams, to help you avoid the golden week program messages on Messenger, you should steer clear of the following websites. These are all scam sites aimed at hijacking users' Facebook accounts:
- AppThuongVN98.Com (AppThuongVN98 . Com)
- Sukienvn7979.com
- Giainhat
- Sukienlocvangapp123.com
- Hosovn79779
With the sophisticated Facebook 2018 prize-winning scam, be cautious to avoid losing money.
Not only do people receive Facebook customer appreciation messages, but Facebook ads are also becoming more frequent, causing inconvenience. To block ads on Facebook, follow the steps in Mytour's article Block Ads on Facebook.
