A fake Delta Air Lines
Facebook page went viral on Tuesday after promising $5,000 and five first-class
tickets to 175 passengers.
The only problem was that
the page was a hoax, first spotted by BuzzFeed’s news
reporter, Mariah Summers.
The promotion included a
picture of airplane-themed gift bags that were stolen from a
Flickr user’s album, and it claimed it was in celebration of the
airline’s 100 million customers.
Here’s the full text from
the Facebook post:
Celebrating a 100 million
[sic] customers already this year we’re giving you the chance to win one of 175
gift bags. Each one contains $5,000 in cash, 5 first class tickets to be used
till 2015 and some delta goodies.
To wine Share & Like
photo (comment to double chances)
Ends 2nd July, winners
will be messaged. Good luck.
“We are aware of this
item, and it is not an official Delta site,” a Delta spokesperson told
BuzzFeed News on Wednesday. “We have reached out to Facebook to remove it
ASAP.”
At
the time of this post, the page and its fake promotion have been removed from
Facebook. BuzzFeed was able to grab the screenshots before the page was
deleted
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