You Keep Falling For Scams On Facebook: Stop It
You see a post offering a $200 Nike gift card, so you share it (as requested) because "it can't hurt to try!" Well, it may not "hurt," but at the least, it's super annoying to see these pop up all the time (they're obviously not real, come on) -- and at the worst, they actually do hurt, spreading malware to your own and your equally gullible friends' computers. It's time to stop this madness, folks. Sit on your hands until the urge to share these things passes if you have to.
You see a post offering a $200 Nike gift card, so you share it (as requested) because “it can’t hurt to try!” Well, it may not “hurt,” but at the least, it’s super annoying to see these pop up all the time (they’re obviously not real, come on) — and at the worst, they actually do hurt, spreading malware to your own and your equally gullible friends’ computers. It’s time to stop this madness, folks. Sit on your hands until the urge to share these things passes if you have to.
So what are these three steps allegedly standing between you and a cool $200?
But guess what? When you get to that last step, you won’t be redirected to a voucher at all (and if you are, and you share personal information, you kind of deserve the resulting identity theft, sir/madam).
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