{"id":1350,"date":"2021-11-24T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T11:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/ellen-facebook-giveaway-scam-promises-amazon-gift-cards-ps5s-and-iphones-snopes-com\/"},"modified":"2021-11-24T12:03:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T11:03:17","slug":"ellen-facebook-giveaway-scam-promises-amazon-gift-cards-ps5s-and-iphones-snopes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/ellen-facebook-giveaway-scam-promises-amazon-gift-cards-ps5s-and-iphones-snopes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Ellen&#039; Facebook Giveaway Scam Promises Amazon Gift Cards, PS5s, and iPhones &#8211; Snopes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>In November 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/sbdhJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook posts<\/a> showing pictures from \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show\u201d promised giveaway entrants $1,000 Amazon gift cards, PlayStation 5 gaming consoles, and iPhones.<br \/>However, this was a scam. It also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/ellen-degeneres-facebook-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wasn\u2019t the first time<\/a> we noticed fake Facebook giveaways that involved \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show.\u201d<br \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Xa1DT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook profiles<\/a> that hosted the scam giveaway showed various images that appeared to come from \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Xa1DT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On one of the accounts<\/a>, text was added in a Spotify link field that said: \u201c38,899,704 people are following this.\u201d However, the real count for the profile was 40 followers. This was simply an attempt to fool Facebook users into believing that the profile was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ellentv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official Facebook page<\/a> for \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show,\u201d which had 38,943,185 followers as of Nov. 23.<br \/>The profiles were given names such as, \u201cEllen_Degeneres_You-Win Check My Page.\u201d The dashes and underscores were likely part of an attempt to avoid Facebook\u2019s detection so that the scam could keep going. One of the pages showed signs that it was potentially operated from Zambia.<br \/>The Facebook posts on the profiles often appeared as follows, showing \u201cEllen\u2019s Greatest Night of Giveaways\u201d as well as pictures of Amazon gift cards:<br \/>The way that the scammers lured users to enter the fake giveaway was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/diesel-brothers-facebook-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">something we\u2019d seen before<\/a>. The scammers posted comments on unrelated posts, promising users they had won a prize and that all they needed to do was visit the scammer\u2019s profile. On the scammer\u2019s Facebook profile, it attempted to imitate \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show\u201d with the promise of Amazon gift cards and other prizes.<br \/>SPECIAL EVENT NOVEMBER<br \/> Win Tickets to See The Ellen DeGeneres Show \u2014 and Take Home Prizes From Her 12 Days of Giveaways!<br \/> Hello everyone\u2026.!! I will choose a random person to Get $1000 Amazon Gift Card for 40 winners!!! Congratulations to the chosen people I commented on \u201cYOU WIN\u201d, all you have to do now is follow the instructions!!<br \/> STEP 1 \u201dLIKE and SHARE this post\u201d<br \/> STEP 2 REGISTER immediately here (link removed)<br \/> STEP 3 Comment \u201cDONE\u201d<br \/> Note: This is real, if you miss this golden opportunity then your name will be changed to another name due to time constraints, thank you.<br \/>The links in the posts led to a sites.google.com form. We noticed that <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/sbdhJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quite a few users<\/a> had registered and commented with the word \u201cdone\u201d in multiple posts on several pages. The total number of people who entered the giveaway was not known. However, it appeared to be at least hundreds of users and was likely well into the thousands.<br \/>In sum, no, \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show\u201d is not running Facebook a giveaway for $1,000 Amazon gift cards, PlayStation 5 consoles, or iPhones. We advise that readers avoid these Facebook scams as they could lead to phishing, theft of personal or financial information, or other negative outcomes.<br \/><strong>Company<\/strong><br \/><strong>Navigate<\/strong><br \/><strong>Sections<\/strong><br \/><strong>Account<\/strong><br \/>\u00a9 1995 &#8211; 2021  by Snopes Media Group Inc.<br \/>This material may not be reproduced without permission.<br \/>Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/ellen-facebook-amazon-ps5\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2021, Facebook posts showing pictures from \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show\u201d promised giveaway entrants $1,000 Amazon gift cards, PlayStation 5 gaming consoles, and iPhones.However, this was a scam. It also wasn\u2019t the first time we noticed fake Facebook giveaways that involved \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show.\u201dThe Facebook profiles that hosted the scam giveaway showed various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}