Thousands of Facebook users have been caught up in the latest attempt by scammers to impersonate supermarket giant Woolworths, after a fake Facebook page offered shoppers the chance to receive a free box of groceries if they shared a post on the social media platform.
Close to 9400 people shared one version of the post, which featured a photo of Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci alongside an image of what appears to be a large number of cardboard boxes filled with groceries.
Source: Facebook
“To celebrate our 110th Birthday, Every single person who shares and comments by 11pm April 28th will get one of these Big Food Box delivered straight to their door on Saturday 30th April. Limit 1 Food box per person,” read the now-deleted post.
The images were posted by an unverified page called ‘Woolworths store’, which was created on April 26, 2022. At the time of writing, the page had 315 people following it, which is a fraction of the 1.2 million that follow the official Woolworths Facebook page.
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Another version of the same post was published on Tuesday evening. At the time of writing, it had attracted 455 comments and been shared more than 1000 times.
In this iteration, the scammers asked Facebook users to click…
