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In October 2017, multiple versions of a dubious post titled Pizza Hut is giving 3 FREE Large Pizza Coupon on their 58th Anniversary circulated on Facebook. The link lead to suspicious domains including pizzahutfree.us, pizzahut.com-freezones.us, pizzahut.com-freezones.us, and massiveoffers.xyz/p/, none of which followed the proper formatting for a pizzahut.com subdomain, which is link.pizzahut.com. Those who clicked through found a page that looked somewhat legitimate, but showed signs of being a very common survey scam. Users were first asked a series of questions: The page followed a common scammer template of appropriating Pizza Hut's logo and Facebook's visual interface, but sloppily boasted that entrants had a chance to get [a] Papa [John's] Coupon. Any interaction with the prompts (again mentioning Papa John's 58th anniversary, not Pizza Hut's) led to a screen encouraging potential victims to spread the scam further on Facebook: Underneath the Congratulations interface was a series of what appeared to be comments from real Facebook users who'd successfully redeemed the purported coupon. All of the profiles featured were for individuals with jobs displayed as MD, at the Hospital: Pizza Hut addressed a previous flood of customer queries on their Facebook wall during a similar scam in May 2016:
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