According to a post currently being shared on Facebook, amusement park Six Flags is giving away five free tickets per family.
The post features an image supposedly depicting the free ticket coupon and includes the Six Flags logo. Supposedly, the company has launched the ticket giveaway as a means of celebrating its 93rd anniversary.
However, the post is fraudulent. People who choose to participate will never receive the promised free tickets. The free tickets are just a figment of a scammer’s imagination and the post has no connection to Six Flags.
The post is yet another Facebook giveaway scam. Its intention is to trick you into submitting your personal information on suspect websites.
The information you provide on the sites will be shared with unscrupulous marketing companies who will inundate you with unwanted phone calls, emails, text messages, and letters.
Scams like this continue to be very common on Facebook. In fact, scammers have used the Six Flags name and logo in several earlier fake giveaways.
For the record, Six Flags is not celebrating its 93rd anniversary in 2019 as claimed in the scam post. The company was founded in 1961.
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A screenshot of the scam post:
Importance Notice
After considerable thought and with an ache in my heart, I have decided that the time has come to close down the Hoax-Slayer website.These days, the site does not generate enough revenue to cover expenses, and I do not have the financial resources to sustain it going forward.
Moreover, I now work long hours in a full-time and physically taxing job, so maintaining and managing the website and publishing new material has become difficult for me.
And finally, after 18 years of writing about scams and hoaxes, I feel that it is time for me to take my fingers off the keyboard and focus on other projects and pastimes.
When I first started Hoax-Slayer, I never dreamed that I would still be working on the project all these years later or that it would become such an important part of my life. It's been a fantastic and engaging experience and one that I will always treasure.
I hope that my work over the years has helped to make the Internet a little safer and thwarted the activities of at least a few scammers and malicious pranksters.
A Big Thank You
I would also like to thank all of those wonderful people who have supported the project by sharing information from the site, contributing examples of scams and hoaxes, offering suggestions, donating funds, or helping behind the scenes.I would especially like to thank David White for his tireless contribution to the Hoax-Slayer Facebook Page over many years. David's support has been invaluable, and I can not thank him enough.
Closing Date
Hoax-Slayer will still be around for a few weeks while I wind things down. The site will go offline on May 31, 2021. While I will not be publishing any new posts, you can still access existing material on the site until the date of closure.Thank you, one and all!
Brett Christensen,
Hoax-Slayer
