A while back, more than 200,000 Swedes were fooled to join a Facebook group that promised to donate 2 SEK per fan to the victims of the Haiti earth quake. Only problem was that once the group reached the goal, it changed name and added some really outrageous content. I was somewhat amazed that all these people didn't see through that scam because when something seems too good to be true, it often is.
The latest scam is a Facebook campaign by IKEA that promises to give you a 1,000 USD gift card if you became a fan of the Swedish company. Of course, this is not really a campaign that is run by IKEA. If you have any knowledge of the IKEA culture I'm convinced that you would agree that IKEA would never give money away in a stunt like this.
IKEA spokesperson Mona Astra Liss says the "false offer" is not some half-baked publicity stunt by IKEA. "It's absolutely not a publicity stunt and absolutely not endorsed by IKEA," she says. She adds that Facebook performs closed investigations of scams, so IKEA doesn't know who's behind the hoax.
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