Westfield Gift Card Scam

November27

A couple of days ago, a lot of my Australian friends changed their facebook status to:

All I want for Christmas is a Westfield Gift Card!

They’d added an application that is meant to give them a chance to with $10,000 from Westfield.

However, a few hours later, many more of my friends has a new status:

THE WESTFIELD GIFT CARD APPLICATION IS FAKE AND IF YOU ENTER THIS SITE THEY CAN HACK INTO YOUR PROFILE AND USING IT TO LOAD TROJON VIRUSES. FACEBOOK R IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO CLOSE THIS APPLICATION DO NOT ADD UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR IDENTITY STOLEN OR A CRASHED COMPUTER……COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR STATUS.

So what’s the story?

Westfield is indeed running a promotion through facebook. You can find the offical link here.

It’s the latest in a long history of fake virus warnings and phony fear mongering.

Of course, you have little chance of winning and you’ll annoy all your friends when the crass message shows up on their home page probably leading to them ‘hiding’ you as a friend in the future.

But if you want to sell out that’s your business.

Stamp Font. Awesome.

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2 Comments to

“Westfield Gift Card Scam”

On November 27th, 2009 at 4:23 pm Kate Says:
haha! i was just entering that contest when you linked this!
On June 29th, 2010 at 10:18 am LOL Says:
LOL this is funny coz one of my friends entered the scam one