April 2020

A post currently being shared on Facebook is asking users to please pray for twin boys who have been infected with COVID-19. 

This email, which looks like it was sent by Google, claims that your ‘files has (sic) been successfully published’ on Google Drive. 

Circulating Facebook post claims that KFC is giving everyone two chicken buckets to help people deal with lockdown and celebrate the company’s anniversary. 

According to this email, high-profile billionaire Warren Buffett is giving you three million dollars as part of a charity project.

According to this Facebook post, fast food outlet Taco Bell is giving everyone who shares a link 2 free Big Bell Boxes for a month. 

According to this supposed warning message, you should not accept a video called “Move your cucu” because it is a very dangerous virus that will format your mobile phone. 

According to this email, which purports to be from American Express, you have been allocated a payment of $5000 as part of the “corona virus aid stimulus bill”.

Scammers on Facebook have been quick to exploit the coronavirus pandemic. One way that they are doing this is by creating fake Facebook giveaway pages and posts that are related to coronavirus, social distancing, and home quarantine.