14 DAY TRIAL // A new multi-step survey scam is currently targeting Facebook users by promising them to reveal a shocking fact about McDonalds food, which will allegedly cause them to stop eating there.
The spam messages posted from the profiles of people who fell victim to this attack read: "Find out the Truth about McDonalds food! (we promise you will never eat it again). 75% of customers said they will seriously NEVER eat McDonalds again after seeing this."
Clicking on the included link takes users to a rogue page hosted on an external domain, which asks them to perform two steps in order to get access to a video.
The steps involve liking and sharing the link on their Facebook walls, which will effectively spam their family and friends, with the previously mentioned message.
This campaign seems particularly aggressive. When we searched for "truth about McDonalds" on Facebook we came across at least a dozen rogue pages directing to different domain names.
Some of the pages had a few hundred likes, indicating that they are new, while some older ones were liked by as much as 65,000 people.
Of course, performing the steps will not allow users to see any video. They will instead be asked to complete one of several surveys.
Scammers earn a commission through affiliate marketing schemes for every user who completes one of these surveys, which try to silently subscribe them to premium rate services.
This is not the first time when McDonald's brand name is used Facebook scams. Back in July we reported about one OMG-type scam that used a "McDonalds might soon shut down because of this, you have to see this!" bait.
In August, a similar attack tried to attract users with shocking images about a McDonald's customer. "OMG the worlds worst mcdonalds customer (shocking video must see)," the lure read.
If you fell victim to this scam, please remove the spam message from your wall and unlike the page. Also, if you've been asked for your phone number during a survey, you should check with your operator about any services you might have unknowingly been subscribed to.
