‘Disneyland is giving everyone 5 FREE tickets’ scam hits Facebook

A Facebook post claims that the amusement park Disneyland is giving away 5 free tickets to celebrate 125 years of success.

The Facebook post shows an image of ta coupon to receive 5 free Disneyland tickets. The fake coupon says something like “FREE 5 TICKETS” and contains instructions for use.

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The post is fraudulent and is essentially a scam designed to phish your personal information via online surveys and offer websites.

If you click the Facebook post you will be directed to a phony coupon claim website that contains an image of the Disneyland Park logo. The website contains three questions and once you answer them you will be shown fake instructions to obtain the coupon.

Some of the questions the website asks are if you have ever visited Disneyland, if you have ever visited Disneyland with a friend or family member, and if you are satisfied with the services of Disneyland. There are many similar scams to this one that use other brands and business. The questions are usually the same. Other scams might ask if you have ever shopped at American chain store Publix and if you are satisfied with the services at Publix.

Once you complete the three questions the website shows instructions to get 5 free tickets to Disneyland. The top of the page says “Congratulations! You have been selected to take part in our short survey to get 5 Free Disneyland Tickets! We only have 232 Tickets remaining so hurry up!”

The fraudulent instructions to obtain the 5 free tickets to Disneyland are to share the page on Facebook by clicking a share button on the page and to type Thanks #Disneyland in the comment field. Afterwards, the page instructs you to click a ‘like’ button on the page.

If you click the like button on the page you will be redirected to a new website, most likely a survey-scam website such as onlinepromotionsusa.com.

The survey-scam website is designed to obtain your personal information such as full name, home address, and email address by promising you free gifts that you will actually never receive. If you provide your personal information it will be used for a variety or purposes by questionable marketing companies and scammers. You can expect to receive unwanted calls at home, text messages, mail, and email messages.

Even if you follow all the steps and provide your information you will not receive 5 free tickets to Disneyland Park. You will not receive a prize or reward for completing online surveys or sharing and liking content on Facebook.

To further debunk this scam, the post claims that Disneyland is giving away 5 free tickets to celebrate ‘125’ years of success; However, Disneyland opened July 17th, 1995 and is only been in business for 63 years. The Walt Disney Company was founded 94 years ago on October 16th, 1923.