More and more people are falling for scams which seem to be
multiplying by the day on Facebook. A few weeks ago tens of
thousands of people fell for a Facebook scam purportedly from
Qantas and offering free first class flights.
I noticed the scam on the Monday whilst browsing through my news
feed. I was informed by Facebook that a number of my friends had
liked and/or shared what seemed to be the "Qantas" page
which was giving away free first class flights for a year!
I immediately clicked into the page because I thought to myself
"that doesn't sound right" and sure enough I could
pick almost immediately that the page was a scam.
What surprised me the most was how rapidly it spread around to a
huge number of my friends list and more surprising was how none of
them caught onto the fact it was a scam. Within hours I noticed
that the page went from a thousand likes to tens of thousands of
likes – proof of how quickly things spread on social
media.
