ALERT: Facebook Lottery Hoax Resurfaces Via Email

If you receive an email saying that you won the Facebook lottery, please delete the message.

So, you received an email saying that you won the Facebook lottery?

Well, you might want to cancel the vacation reservations and the new car, and find a way to delete that email to your boss, since the Facebook lottery doesn’t exist.

The Naked Security blog, from IT-security and data-protection company Sophos, warned of the latest Facebook scam, in which users receive emails alerting them about their “good fortune.”

According to the email, all winners have to do is show up at Facebook’s London office by Oct.

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