Phoney Facebook Survey Touts Free Starbucks Lifetime Pass

Social media users are inundated with survey scams promising free or heavily discounted goods and services by everyone from Kohl’s to Costco. But now a new hoax survey is targeting Starbucks lovers with the lure of free lifetime coffee passes.

Facebook users were offered embedded links offered a lifetime pass to Starbucks titled “Starbucks Is Giving Free Lifetime Pass on it’s [sic] 44th Anniversary (83 Pass Remaining),” which cloned the style of Facebook-based content.

The embedded links involved a variety of URLs, some of which included entirely unrelated scam-bait terms like “iTunes” and “Apple.” Users who clicked through to claim their purported lifetime pass to Starbucks were routed to a page reading “Starbucks Is Giving Free Lifetime Pass on it’s [sic] 44th Anniversary (83 Pass Remaining),” which cloned the style of Facebook-based content (but was hosted on a non-Facebook URL.) h/t snopes

Before you waste your time filling out the survey, beware, it is NOT real and will not earn you even a single cup of the pricey brew.