{"id":2877,"date":"2022-01-28T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/28\/avoid-these-750-cash-app-facebook-scams-snopes-com\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:24:10","slug":"avoid-these-750-cash-app-facebook-scams-snopes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/28\/avoid-these-750-cash-app-facebook-scams-snopes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid These $750 Cash App Facebook Scams &#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>On Jan. 27, 2022, a reader sent in a tip about a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/k9Wj9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook ad<\/a> that promised $750 in Cash App rewards for free. The Facebook page was named <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/6V0yn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kjguyrt<\/a>. It had been created only a few days before:<br \/>One user who realized it was a scam <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/lPZMr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commented<\/a>: \u201cTake your stupid f*cking advertising and stick it up your ass.\u201d<br \/>After a few seconds of some simple searching on Facebook, we were able to uncover a seemingly endless number of more posts, groups, and events that promoted a similar $750 Cash App scam. Most of them appeared to lead to brief surveys in Google Docs or on sites.google.com pages before ultimately asking users for personal identifiable information (PII).<br \/>Such scams have a chance of eventually leading to phishing, identity theft, or other harmful outcomes. No one was genuinely giving away $750 on Cash App for free on Facebook.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/PYOjS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This one<\/a> from a page named Flash Reward had been around since at least May 2021:<br \/>Meanwhile, some of the pages we found put the scam in the name: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/1Aze8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$750 Cash App<\/a>. This one led to scams on WhatsApp:<br \/>One of the Facebook groups we discovered was named <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/9gSfM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cash App\/PAYPAL BLESSINGS<\/a>. It had more than 13,000 members. In the rules for the group, it said: \u201cThis group is for BLESSINGS only no scams.\u201d However, we only found scams.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/7e5aA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One of the posts<\/a> from a Facebook user named Stash Account, which had nothing to do with the real finance app, posted in the group: \u201cIf you haven\u2019t gotten Help Drop Tag Names &amp; Check Balance, I am Legit Limited Time.\u201d<br \/>The Stash Account person responded to hundreds of people with the scam in a comment that looked like this:<br \/>This other Facebook group was named <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/dUuDD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CashApp $750<\/a> and placed its scam links in the \u201cAbout\u201d section of the page:<br \/>On top of Facebook accounts, pages, and groups all being involved in the $750 Cash App scams, we also found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/events\/?q=payment%20from%20cash%20app%20750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">well over 600 Facebook events<\/a> that had been created for the ruse. There were likely many more. However, our Google Chrome browser window couldn\u2019t handle loading any further listings, as it was already so much information for the tab to handle at once.<br \/>We looked into the Facebook events to see if they differed from the way the scam operated on pages and in groups. From what we saw, it looked like they, too, initially led to surveys that eventually ended up asking for PII.<br \/>We previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/ellen-degeneres-cash-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on similar scams that offered $750 in Cash App that impersonated talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. Some of those accounts appeared to still be active as of late January.<br \/>It\u2019s unclear why these Cash App scams were allowed to thrive when they were so easy to hunt down. We recommend that readers stay far away from any social media posts or ads that promise free money.<br \/>For further reading, we recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/news\/2022\/01\/17\/crypto-scam-facebook-messenger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infiltrated a cryptocurrency scam<\/a> on Facebook. It wasn\u2019t difficult to find our way into the scam. However, what was unexpected was the fact that Facebook took no action on the scam despite the fact that we contacted the company\u2019s media relations team by email. It, too, was still active at the end of January.<br \/><strong>Company<\/strong><br \/><strong>Navigate<\/strong><br \/><strong>Sections<\/strong><br \/><strong>Account<\/strong><br \/>\u00a9 1995 &#8211; 2022  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\/750-cash-app-facebook\/\">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>On Jan. 27, 2022, a reader sent in a tip about a Facebook ad that promised $750 in Cash App rewards for free. The Facebook page was named Kjguyrt. 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