‘Pizza Hut Free Pizza’ Facebook Giveaway Scam

The claim

In fact, the post is a typical Facebook survey scam designed to trick you into spamming your Facebook friends and divulging your personal information on suspect websites.

If you click on the post, you will first be asked to complete a survey about your pizza eating habits. The scam website will then pretend to check your answers for eligibility. In reality, you will always be selected as a “winner” regardless of which answers you provide.

Next, you will be told that you must share and like the post on Facebook and enter the comment “Thanks for my pizza” before you get your free pizzas. Completing these steps ensures that the scam post spreads further across Facebook, duping many more people as it travels.

After completing these steps, you will then be prompted to click one of several links, ostensibly to verify your claim.

The links open various websites that promise the chance to win further prizes in exchange for filling in surveys, registering on the site, and providing your personal details.

The information you provide will be shared with “site sponsors” and marketing companies who will subsequently inundate you with phone calls, emails, text messages, and letters that try to sell you a range of dodgy products and services.

The scammers who created the fake pizza giveaway will earn money each time one of their victims signs up on one of the websites.

For the record, Pizza Hut was founded in 1958, so 2018 is not the company’s 75th anniversary as claimed in the scam post.

Survey scams like this are very common on Facebook. Be wary of any post that claims that you can get free items just for liking, sharing and filling in surveys.