Facebook TUI Scam Holiday Competition

By J Drew -
Some of the latest scams to do the rounds are based on Facebook where pages are setup purporting to be major brands that are giving away big prizes in exchange for liking or sharing a page. Invariably these are scams and nothing to do with the brand in question.

Facebook TUI Scam Holiday Competition
Facebook TUI Scam Holiday Competition
 The latest one seen this weekend is for TUI Holidays claiming they're giving away free holidays to Morocco. To be clear this is nothing to do with the real TUI holidays and they have no involvement.

Facebook TUI Scam Holiday Competition
Facebook TUI Scam Holiday Competition
Read the page and it's clear that it's fake, it's described as "friends of TUI" and only has the one post on the page with no contact info. Real TUI would have full information about the company.

The only purpose of these types of page/competition is to harvest your data and to sell it on. The numbers signing up are scary. From first view on Sunday morning when the page had 5k likes by Sunday evening the page had over 25,000 likes and 50,000 people had shared/liked the post in question. I repeatedly saw the post being shared by friends so the page had found a perfect way to perpetuate their scam.

A TUI spokesman said: “We are aware of this Facebook page and we can confirm that it has no affiliation with the TUI brand.

“We would like to remind customers of the importance of making sure that the page is verified before interacting with it, which can be easily checked by looking for the blue tick next to our name.
“We have reported this to Facebook and they have advised they will be closing it down as soon as possible.”

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