Businesses might still be warming up to the idea of social media marketing to sell goods and services, but hackers seem to understand the potential, going to the extent of propagating a current Facebook-based scam, purportedly for Whole Foods, to gain personal information and install viruses. The scam is in various forms — and even uses Whole Foods Market’ logo — suggesting that you can a $500 gift card.
This scam is being propagated through fake Facebook Fan Pages that use the name “Whole Foods,” and suggest urgency of signing up, supposedly due to limited quantities and a deadline. As CNET points out, the signup forms go so far as to ask applicants to fill out a credit assessment, which includes a fair bit of personal data. The net result is that some people have had malware installed on their computer as a result. Apparently Whole Foods is responding to people via Twitter about this scam.
Have you seen these fake Whole Food ad, below, or other ones? Have you signed up for any? Let us know in the comments.
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I signed up fopr this and have had my card canceled..Gevalia and Net Flix
Comment by kerry steiner — April 2, 2010 @ 2:07 pm
I've seen this for Target, Ikea, a couple other places.
Comment by Nick Bauer — April 2, 2010 @ 2:39 pm
I was just invited to this scam. Like Wholefoods would actually pay $6M to acquire 12,000 fans, who can just un-friend them after they get the card.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Whole-Foods-MarketF...
Comment by edog — April 2, 2010 @ 2:54 pm
I posted on the same thing. Have seen it with IKEA, Whole Foods, and now Best Buy. Scam is rapant.
http://bit.ly/d1Oq6Z
Comment by Jeff Crites — April 2, 2010 @ 4:43 pm
great writen…
nice info
Comment by Jig0R — April 3, 2010 @ 8:27 am
I'm FILSTON KINDEMBO.
I'm living in Ireland county Monaghan,Carrickmacross.
I'm born in Congo.
Thanks for you works too.
Comment by filston kindembo — April 4, 2010 @ 5:48 am
Well what can i say, it's never safe. The internet will never be..
Comment by Knox — April 4, 2010 @ 7:58 am
I signed up, invited all of my face book friends to do the same and even went so far as to fill out 3 of the promotional offers which were linked to real companies like netflix, gedivea, absolute green tea, and Internet professor or something like that. my computer has been having networking problems since, it wont go on-line at cafes who's signal i usually get just fine. Now i just discovered that i cant log on to either my personal or business on-line bank accounts. also when i reached this web site for instance my hard drive started over working. don't know what of this is related but pretty scary.
Comment by sasha — April 5, 2010 @ 4:04 pm
I haven't seen this one in my area yet, so thanks for the warning. I'll let my facebook friends know.
Comment by Marg — April 7, 2010 @ 10:33 am