Beware: Facebook Scams (from Joan Stewart's Publicity Hound e-zine)

Two Facebook scams are back.

If you're drooling over that iPhone 7 and hoping to win one on a Facebook iPhone giveaway page, beware.

Many of those pages are "like-farming" scams. Someone creates a fake page and tries to collect as many likes as possible quickly. Once the page accumulates about a half million likes, the scammer can sell it to a shady marketer who wants an already-established Facebook page to promote any sleazy product or service to you.

Sometimes these scams are easy to spot, sometimes not. Kim Komando, aka "America's Digital Goddess," has captured screenshots of real and fake iPhone giveaway offers. See if you can spot the fakes. Go to "Facebook scam! Don't click "Like" again until you've read this." 

​In Scam Number 2, beware of free "federal grants" that your friends or family members tell you about on Facebook. (Read article...)