There are no “free” cafes! Be aware of the Facebook scam

Anyone with a Facebook profile has surely come across a post where a coffee machine is being sold for €1.99. By doing a quick search, we realized that the price of the device is around 800 euros … so it’s a “research” and it looks like a good deal! but not…!!!

This is a scam being circulated on Facebook with the aim of stealing your debit/credit card details.

In the digital world, there is no shortage of scams with the most diverse goals.  This time, a sponsored post is being published on Facebook, which aims to steal your credit or debit card data.  The scam is well set up, and there are even a series of fake profiles supporting the lie.

How does a Facebook scam coffee machine work?
The scam appears in the users' Facebook feed with information that Philips is out of stock and is offering a Lattego 4300 coffee machine for only 4300.  To order the device, the user will have to click on the link.

After the link, there is some kind of game in which the user always wins (in the three attempts shown).  As you can see in the following picture, in our test we "won" the machine and to get it we have to fill out a form.

After that, the personal data of the supposed shipment of the device is requested.  Although it is personal data, it is not the most sensitive and therefore users are not always suspicious.

The next step (the last step) is the scam itself.  Customers are welcome to enter credit/debit card details, expiration date and CVV/CVC.  It is clear that by providing this data to the scammer, he will be able to make digital payments.
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If you see this post, report it to Facebook.  Do not fill in any statements or believe a lot of comments that support lying.  This is a Facebook-approved scam, which aims to steal credit/debit card data.