Beware of ALDI giving away Christmas Food Box which contains groceries worth $75 and a $25 ALDI voucher to celebrate 75th Birthday of ALDI Inc. fake posts circulating around on social media sites like Facebook with link to website U2COUPON COM such as:
"FREE Grocery for everyone. 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 in the next 24hrs will get one of these Christmas Food Box delivered straight to their door on Sunday 29th November. Each Food box contains groceries worth $75 and a $25 ALDI voucher - After visit https://u2coupon com/Aldi/ to validate your entry. Limit 1 Food box per person."
As per these fraud posts, you will get Christmas Food Box which contains groceries worth $75, and a $25 ALDI voucher 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 $25 ALDI 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 giving away Christmas Food Box phishing scams.
What is the motive behind these fraudulent social media pots? The reality of scam social media posts pretending to be from Jason Hart, CEO of ALDI Inc., claiming to giveaway FREE Grocery (Food box contains groceries worth $75 and a $25 ALDI voucher) for every single person who shaᴦes and comments
These fraudulent social media 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 ALDI voucher. But, even if you follow them and share these posts, you will never receive those groceries and ALDI vouchers.
Whenever you got these kinds of posts, you should not share these posts, or comment on these posts or click any link 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. For example, in this case, you can check the official website of ALDI and contact them there.
It is clear that this scammer is making you fool by asking you to share 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 your personal information will be on risk. 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.
If these cybercriminals 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.
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FYI: This post was first published on 15 November 2020 and updated at 31 March 2025.
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