Fraud Alert! Beware of ALDI and Costco Inc. giving away Christmas Food Box which contains groceries worth $250 and a $35 Costco Voucher or groceries worth $75 and $25 ALDI voucher to celebrate 35th Birthday of Costco or 75th Birthday of ALDI Inc. fake posts circulating around on social media sites like Facebook with link to website U2COUPON COM such as:
- "My name is Craig Jelinekand I'm the CEO of Costco Inc. To celebrate our 35th Birthday, Every single person who shaᴦes and comments in the next 24hrs will get one of these Christmas Food Box delivered straight to their door on Monday 30th November. Each Food box contains groceries worth of $250 and a $35 Costco voucher. Make sure you validate your entry : u2coupon com. Limit 1 Food box per person."
- "My name is Jason Hart and I'm the CEO of ALDI Inc. To celebrate our 75th Birthday, Every single person who shaᴦes and comments by 6 PM Sunday will get one of these Christmas Food Box delivered straight to their door on Monday 30th November. Each Food box contains groceries worth $75 and a $25 ALDI voucher - After visit u2coupon com/Aldi/ to validate your entry. Limit 1 Food box per person."
As per these fake claim posts, you will get Christmas Food Box which contains groceries worth $250 and a $35 Costco Voucher or groceries worth $75 and $25 ALDI voucher to celebrate 35th Birthday of Costco or 75th Birthday of ALDI Inc. if you click the link and register and share them and comment on the posts. So, people are sharing these posts and commenting on them. But once they shared and commented, they didn’t get those groceries and vouchers but only offers to sign up for credit cards and other subscriptions. So, these are fake posts and you should not follow any instructions provided on such fake posts. Why? Well, keep on reading this post to find out more detail about this ALDI or Costco giving away Christmas Food Box phishing scams.
The reality of scam social media posts - FREE Grocery for everyone. My name is Craig Jelinek and I'm the CEO of Costco Inc. To celebrate our 35th Birthday, Every single person who shaᴦes and comments in the next 24hrs will get one of these Christmas Food Box delivered straight to their door on Monday 30th November. Each Food box contains groceries worth of $250 and a $35 Costco voucher. Limit 1 Food box per person.
The fraud social media posts: "My name is Craig Jelinekand I'm the CEO of Costco Inc. To celebrate our 35th Birthday, Every single person who shaᴦes and comments in the next 24hrs will get one of these Christmas Food Box delivered straight to their door on Monday 30th November. Each Food box contains groceries worth of $250 and a $35 Costco voucher. Make sure you validate your entry : u2coupon com. Limit 1 Food box per person." and so on are nothing other than the fake social media posts shared with the intention to scam you. These posts may take you to some website where they will ask you some questions and ask you to share and comment in order to receive the free groceries and voucher. But, even if you follow them and share these posts, you will never receive those groceries and vouchers.
Whenever you got these kinds of posts, you should not share these posts, or comment on these posts or click any link provided on these posts or follow any instruction provided on these posts. Instead, you should check on the official social media page or official websites of the respective companies to confirm either these posts are real or fake.
What is the motive behind these fraudulent social media posts? - "My name is Craig Jelinekand I'm the CEO of Costco Inc. To celebrate our 35th Birthday, Every single person who shaᴦes and comments in the next 24hrs will get one of these Christmas Food Box delivered straight to their door on Monday 30th November. Each Food box contains groceries worth of $250 and a $35 Costco voucher. Make sure you validate your entry : u2coupon com. Limit 1 Food box per person."
These kinds of fake social media posts are being shared by scammers to get your personal information so that they can scam you. So, you should not follow any instructions provided on these posts.
It is clear that this scammer is trying to hack your personal details and also making you fool by sharing his/her post on multiple groups so that he/she can get tons of followers on his/her social media page. Once these scammers got enough number of followers on their social media pages, they will rename their social media pages and will sell to third parties as per the number of followers they have. Not only that, but they also will try to hack your personal information as far as possible so that they can scam you later by misusing that information or they simply sell that information to third parties.
If you click any link provided by these scammers or download anything from the website that you visit from those links or follow any instructions, then you may end up losing your personal information. The links provided on these posts may lead you to malicious websites that may contain some viruses or malware or spyware that can hack your device to get your personal information.
Once these cybercriminals get your personal information, they make money by selling those details. If they get your credit card information, even they can steal money from your credit card. So, you should not follow any instructions provided on these kinds of posts.
This scammer may use multiple popular companies' or persons' names to share such similar posts. Few more examples of these kinds of fake social media posts are:
- ALDI Free Food Box Scam
- Travis Porter Chick-fil-A Regional Manager Giving Away $100 or $35 Chick-fil-A Gift-Cards
- Everyone Gets a Subway Gift-Card
- Home Depot $220 Discount
- Whole Foods $175 Voucher
- Toyota Tundra Giveaway 2020
- Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) claiming to giveaway millions of dollars
- Sylvester Stallone claiming to giveaway $300,000
- Costco $125 Voucher
- and so on.
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Now you know the reality of social media posts: "My name is Jason Hart and I'm the CEO of ALDI Inc. To celebrate our 75th Birthday, Every single person who shaᴦes and comments by 6 PM Sunday will get one of these Christmas Food Box delivered straight to their door on Monday 30th November. Each Food box contains groceries worth $75 and a $25 ALDI voucher - After visit u2coupon com/Aldi/ to validate your entry. Limit 1 Food box per person." So, if you want to say something about it, then please feel free to leave your comment below. You can also comment below to report about similar kinds of scams or even to report about any kinds of scams. After all, we are here to spread awareness about scams. So, let’s do it together. Let’s save innocent people from scams.
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