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Get Free $250 Mcdonalds Gift Card Now

The Facebook post: "Get Free $250 McDonald Gift Card Now," is a scam. This scam will try to trick you into clicking on it by claiming that you can receive a free $250 McDonald's gift card today at the malicious website: www.hotfreeoffers.net. But, the website is a fake and has nothing to do with McDonald, and is only a scam to get you to complete surveys, comment on, "like" or share the same deceptive website.

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If you receive a post on your Facebook Wall or Timeline, please report it as spam and then delete it.

The Fake McDonald Facebook Post

Get Free $250 mcdonalds Gift Card Now (297 Left)
Receive a FREE $250 mcdonald's Gift Card Today

Claim your Free $250 mcdonalds Gift Card Now. Limited Time Offer
Follow these 3 simple steps below to claim your Gift Card!

Gift Cards Remaining: 359
1) Step 1, Share
2) Step 2, Like Our Page (Please click confirm if required)
hotfreeoffers.net/mcd.html

By liking,commenting on and sharing this scam, you are only helping to spread it to other Facebook users and making the scammers responsible for this, earn money. Scammers earn money when they make a page popular and are able to sell it to the highest bidder, along with the names and other public information of the persons who liked or shared the scam.

I guess, the last thing we want to do is to make these scammers rich by tricking you and others into liking and sharing a Facebook post or website. So, if you have already liked or shared this scam, please unlike and unshare it.

Also, they may ask you to complete surveys in order to receive your gift card. But, it doesn't matter how much surveys you complete, you will never receive any McDonald's gift cards. The scammers, on the other hand, will get paid for each competed survey.

Click here for instructions on how to remove things you have already posted on Facebook.

Also, if the scam appears on your Facebook Timeline or Wall, please report it to Facebook and remove it.

If you have noticed or told my your friends that you are posting this scam or others, on their Facebook Walls or Timelines, please click here to remove unwanted or malicious applications from your Facebook account that maybe posting information on your behalf.

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