I recently received two, almost identical emails purportedly from the Chief Financial Officer of Facebook telling me that I had been lucky enough to win a free Apple MacBook Air as a part of an advertising promotion.  The emails each provided a link for me to click on to in order to complete a survey and receive my prize.  This is a scam.  If you receive one of these emails and click on the link you risk becoming a victim of identity theft through the downloading of a keystroke logging program that can steal the information from your computer or by providing the information requested in the “survey.”

TIPS

If you receive this type of email, delete it immediately.  In one email  that I received, the CFO was McKeighan Humberto.  In the other his name was Esposto Coy.  Both emails were very similar although not identical.  As with many scam emails, the grammar is sometimes poor.  In McKeighan Humberto’s email, I was told that I was “randomly elected” to receive the prize rather than “selected.”  If you are ever tempted to respond to such an email, do yourself a favor and contact the legitimate company, in this case Facebook, to determine whether or not the offer is a scam.  In every instance, you will learn that it is a scam.