Warning for millions of Facebook users over ‘free’ Aldi food box offer

FACEBOOK customers are being warned over a 'free' Aldi meals field supply from a web page impersonating the grocery store.

The submit says the meals packages are value £35 and are free to whoever is first to remark.

A spokesperson for Aldi also said the supermarket was not associated in any way with the post
A spokesperson for Aldi additionally stated the grocery store was not related in any method with the submitCredit score: FACEBOOK

It seems to be enjoying into concern over meals costs amid a price of dwelling disaster within the UK.

“To start out of March we needed to do one thing just a little particular at Aldi as we all know occasions had been powerful final yr so we're rewarding everybody who feedback within the subsequent 12 days with a FREE meals field filled with important groceries value £35," the Fb submit stated.

The submit, from a web page referred to as ALDI Shops, has garnered greater than 300 feedback, Full Reality first reported.

Past the title, there may be nothing to recommend it's Aldi's official web page.

The web page is unverified and has simply 15,000 followers.

Whereas the grocery store's actual Fb web page is adopted by greater than 2million folks and has a verification sticker.

A spokesperson for Aldi additionally stated the grocery store was not related to the submit. 

It is not clear what fraudsters had been attempting to attain with the pretend supply.

Nevertheless, simply weeks in the past Full Reality raised the alarm on an Amazon rip-off doing to rounds on Fb, which lured in harmless customers with a discount parcel giveaway.

Fraudsters on Fb had been providing pallets of uncollected parcels for simply £2, in a bid to "release" area in Amazon warehouses.

The posts took harmless Fb customers to a pretend web page that resembled Amazon, the place they had been then requested to finish a survey for the chance to “win” a pallet, somewhat than buy one for £2 because the submit said.

The hyperlink customers had been directed to is assumed to have been riddled with malware, and depart folks's units contaminated.



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