According to a Facebook post, users simply need to provide their birth month to win gift cards or cash from Bruno Mars.
In October 2022, we received mail from a reader that asked if musician Bruno Mars was holding a Facebook giveaway for gift cards worth $750 or $10,000 in cash. We did some quick digging and, as expected, were able to confirm that scammers were behind these posts. Mars was not giving away money on Facebook, nor did he have anything to do with the scam.
In the past, we witnessed these same kinds of scam giveaways using the photo and likeness of former talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. There were so many of these scams for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” for so many years that we reported about them on three separate occasions.
The Facebook Scam
As for Mars, we found Facebook posts that asked, in all capital letters, “What’s your birth month to qualify for today’s giveaway?” It read like this: “WHAT”S Y0UR BIRTH MONTH TO QUALIFY FOR TODAYS GIVEAWAY.”
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In addition to Mars, we found Facebook posts that indicated…
