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"Delta Airlines Gift Bags of 5 First Class Tickets and Cash" Giveaway Scam

The fake Delta Airlines posts below, which claims Delta Airlines is giving away 200 gift bags containing 5 first class tickets and $5,000 to celebrate being named the #1 Airline in the U.S.A, is a Facebook scam. The Delta Airlines ticket giveaway scam will take potential to a fake Delta Airlines website. Thousands of Facebook users are being tricked into "liking", sharing, commenting on the fake Delta Airlines post and website. The fake website may also ask Facebook users complete surveys, which the scammers will get paid for. So, Facebook users are advised not to follow the instructions in the post or on the fake Delta Airlines website.

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Facebook users who have received the fake post below on their Facebook Wall or Timeline, are ask to report it as spam or delete it. Also, Facebook users are being asked to always check with the legitimate Delta Airlines Facebook page located at: www.facebook.com/delta, to verify the authenticity of a promotion.

The "Delta Airlines Ticket and Cash" Giveaway Scam

DeltaAir Community

Celebrate with Delta as we have officially been named the #1 Airline in the USA as of 2016! To celebrate we are giving away 200 of these Delta Airlines Gift Bags full of amazing prizes! Each bag will have 5 First Class tickets to anywhere in the world, $5,000 in cash, and a Delta key-chain! Just Share this post and Like our page then Click the "Sign Up" button on our page to win.

By liking,commenting on and sharing the 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. Click here for instructions on how to remove things you have already posted on Facebook.

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