WhatsApp and Facebook ticket giveaways: viral fraud

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If you got a message from a friend in WhatsApp saying that Disneyland is giving away tickets, just politely ignore it: It’s a hoax. In this post, we explain how it works.

Here’s what happens. You get a message from someone in your friend list about a ticket giveaway. If you head to the site, you might read about, say, 500 free tickets to mark Disneyland’s 110th anniversary. Nearly 300 have supposedly been snapped up, but 200 or so are still temptingly available.


What’s more, the page is brimming with comments, seemingly from other users falling over themselves to praise Disneyland and post pictures of their prized tickets.

The procedure for getting a free ticket is very simple. Complete a short survey (usually about 5 simple questions: Have you been to Disneyland before?, Are you 18 or over?, Do you like Disneyland?, etc.), and then share the message with your WhatsApp friends, for which a special button is handily provided on the site.

After that, you’re prompted to boldly click or tap the “Get Tickets” button. But, for some strange reason, the tickets are not forthcoming. Instead, you are likely to be redirected to another site, which sends you to a third, and from there to a fourth, and so on.

Full reading: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/whatsapp-...cam/25419/