Facebook page scam offer for Facebook IKEA gift cards worth $ 1,000, there are nearly 40,000 victims. It is the latest example of new trends on the social networking site Facebook: scammers causing “flooding” the Facebook page with fake gift card for several months have more than 70,000 similar victims. Early in April 2010, a Facebook page other scam given gift certificates Whole Foods 500 USD has been widely reported.

The latest scam Facebook page has over 37,000 users, giving them gift certificates of $ 1,000 in exchange for advertising for IKEA their friends. At that time, the speed is more new fans of reaching about 5,000 pages per hour. Facebook page said this scam; the ad exists only for a day.

To participate, users must become a fan of the IKEA page on Facebook is fake, and then invite all their friends to become fans. Next, they were transferred to a page counter on marketing, where they are asked to provide personal information like name, address, date of birth and home telephone number. After this step, the victim must be registered with two online marketing services gift card to confirm.
According to Audri Lanford card was the promise in these scams never appear. In fact, personal information of victims could be used for ID theft, or worse, their computer could be attacked. Early in April 2010, a spokesman said Simon Axten of Facebook, fake gift cards as a "small problem" on Facebook, but he can’t say how many people have become fans of scam sites. However, Facebook is developing an automated system to remove them, he said Axten.