{"id":1242,"date":"2011-12-08T23:26:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T06:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/facebook-scam-free-costco-gift-card\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:30:39","slug":"facebook-scam-free-costco-gift-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/facebook-scam-free-costco-gift-card\/","title":{"rendered":"FACEBOOK SCAM: Free Costco Gift Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_autopost\">\n<div>\n<div>Take care, beware ye&#8217;all<\/div>\n<div>About Urban Legends<br \/>\nDecember 8, 2011 1:51 AM<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/b\/2011\/12\/08\/facebook-scam-free-costco-gift-card.htm\">FACEBOOK SCAM: Free Costco Gift Card<\/a><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px solid #000000; margin-bottom: 4px;\" title=\"CLAIM: Costco is currently giving away $100 or $1,000 gift cards to all facebook users!! STATUS: False.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/0.tqn.com\/d\/urbanlegends\/1\/0\/m\/7\/1\/costco-gift-card-scam.gif?w=987\" alt=\"Free $100\/$1,000 Costco gift card offer is a Facebook scam\" \/><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s too-good-to-be-true Facebook scam is a $100 or $1,000 gift card from Costco.<\/p>\n<p>Please note: NO SUCH OFFER EXISTS!<\/p>\n<p>If the above posting appears in your newsfeed, don&#8217;t click on it. Doing so will cause the same blurb to appear in your profile, and replicate in all your friends&#8217; newsfeeds, and you will NOT get a free Costco gift card for your trouble. <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/b\/a\/261866.htm\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: #f5f3ef; border: 1px solid #d5d0bf; clear: both; padding: .5em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clk.about.com\/?zi=1\/1hc&amp;zu=http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/b\/2011\/12\/08\/facebook-scam-free-costco-gift-card.htm\">FACEBOOK SCAM: Free Costco Gift Card<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/clk.about.com\/?zi=1\/1hc&amp;zu=http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/\">About.com Urban Legends<\/a> on Thursday, December 8th, 2011 at 09:51:19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clk.about.com\/?zi=1\/1hc&amp;zu=http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/b\/2011\/12\/08\/facebook-scam-free-costco-gift-card.htm\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/clk.about.com\/?zi=1\/1hc&amp;zu=http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/b\/2011\/12\/08\/facebook-scam-free-costco-gift-card.htm#gB3\">Comment<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/gi\/pages\/shareurl.htm?PG=http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/b\/2011\/12\/08\/facebook-scam-free-costco-gift-card.htm&amp;zItl=FACEBOOK%20SCAM:%20Free%20Costco%20Gift%20Card\">Email this<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sent from my iPhone 4 by Michael<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/mclasen.posterous.com\/facebook-scam-free-costco-gift-card\">mclasen&#8217;s posterous<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take care, beware ye&#8217;all About Urban Legends December 8, 2011 1:51 AM FACEBOOK SCAM: Free Costco Gift Card Today&#8217;s too-good-to-be-true Facebook scam is a $100 or $1,000 gift card from Costco. 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