Scammers came up a new “free shirt campaign” claiming to be from Facebook, as a reason to celebrate its 7th birthday.
“As a token of our appreciation, we would like to offer you a free T-shirt on our seventh anniversary. Get it here” – and a link is provided.
The page looks so real that hundreds of thousands of people fell victims in 2011. Opening the link will require you to provide personal information, in order to receive the shirt. Identity theft is just a click away.
How to avoid: don’t click on any of the buttons on the offer. If you do, the link will automatically be posted on your wall and you’ll spam all your friends. There are no free shirts from Facebook. Think about it: the site will reach very soon its billion user! That many shirts will probably dress all the poor countries in the world.