A VERIFY viewer recently received an email claiming he was a winner of the “Facebook lottery promotion.” This is one of the most common scams on Facebook.
Facebook is the largest social media platform in the world. In the first quarter of 2022, Meta reported that Facebook had over 2.94 billion monthly active users.
VERIFY viewer Chris H. told our team he recently received an email from Facebook claiming he was one of 20 people selected in a random drawing in the “Facebook lottery promotion.” He wanted to know if this promotion is real or a scam.
THE QUESTION
Does Facebook have a lottery promotion?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, Facebook does not have a lottery promotion.
WHAT WE FOUND
Facebook lists lottery scams as one of the most common scams on its platform. According to Facebook, lottery scams are often carried out by accounts or pages impersonating someone a person may know in real life or pretending to be an organization, such as a government agency or Facebook itself.
Facebook says the lottery scam…
