“Mini Cooper Giveaway”; Scam Targets Singaporean Facebook Users

The post and the Facebook Page that published it are fraudulent. The Facebook Page has no connection to either Mini or parent company BMW and it is certainly not giving away any Mini Coopers. The Page is a Facebook scam like many others that have gone before.

This one is a little different in that it appears to be actively targeting users in a particular location, in this case Singapore.

Of course, like similar Facebook scams, the goals of the Page are to trick users into first promoting the bogus giveaway via likes, shares, and comments and then divulging their personal information on suspect survey websites. These websites will share your information with online marketing companies who will soon begin inundating you with promotional emails, text messages, phone calls, and letters.

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While this particular version takes aim at people in Singapore, almost identical versions have targeted Facebook users in general.

After some mainstream media attention, the original scam page has now apparently been removed from Facebook. However, new – almost identical – scam pages often quickly appear to replace those that have been removed.

This video from the Hoax-Slayer YouTube Channel discusses a similar survey scam attempt that promises participants the chance to win a Range Rover rather than a Mini Cooper:

Refer to the following resources for further details about such scams:

What is a Facebook Survey Scam?