Posts from Facebook profiles and Pages that claim to be associated with popular US celebrity Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson are promising users cash and prizes in exchange for sharing posts and downloading movies.
The profiles and Pages use the star’s name and images to imply that their fraudulent posts are from The Rock himself.
The posts urge you to first share a picture and then click a link to download one of Dwayne’s latest movies. Supposedly, Dwayne will select people who share and download as winners of the pictured cash and prizes.
But, in fact, the posts have no connection to Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson whatsoever and those who are tricked into participating have no chance of winning any cash or prizes. The promised cash and prizes do not exist.
Of course, the real Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson Facebook Page, which includes Facebook’s blue Verified Page icon beside the name, makes no mention of such giveaways.
The posts are scams designed to trick you into visiting a decidedly dodgy video hosting website that asks for your personal and financial information. The site claims that the movie downloads are free but insists that you provide your credit card details as a means of validating your account.
Any company that allows itself to be promoted via outright scams such as bogus celebrity giveaways certainly should not be trusted with your credit card numbers or any other personal information.
In fact, this fake Dwayne Johnson giveaway is just one among a recent spate of similar Facebook scams that have used the names of several high-profile celebrities, including Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson, and Will Smith.
If one of these scam Facebook posts comes your way, do not like, share, comment or click on it.
Examples of the scam posts:
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Sir your Indian team is very froud I am Winnar price manny prosason charg total 38 thousand pay him sir but no price no manny no response cheeting sir . please.helpi sir please.
Thanks mr Brett, i was so much confused with those posts,but the scammers must be very smart, as there areas where those so called celebrities make live video presentations in clarification for that exercise. Does that mean the celebrities are also involved in the scam? Which is which
Often, the scammers steal videos from the celebrity’s real social media pages. The celebrity might be discussing a genuine giveaway or promotion. In reality, the videos have no connection to the scam giveaway pages. The celebrities are not involved in the scam in any way.
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Sir…before few days i got a msg that i have won the first runner up..with 17400 us dollars ..after that when i call the contact number they asking me the money of 8000 as bank charge…what is that..?? Is anyone are doing business on the name of dwayanejonson then why you are not taking any action….???…your opinion please..otherwise we have to be inform to the police….
Yas im all so same issue in scam but he is shiring on pan card, Adhar card, all so pls dont send anything
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I am also getting this message
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