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  • 2021-06-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Are Ray-Ban Sunglasses 90% Off for an Anniversary Sale? (en)
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  • In late May 2021, postings on social media promoted a purported 84th-anniversary sale for Ray-Ban sunglasses. The offer of 90% off supposedly only lasted for 24 hours. Ray-Ban sunglasses cost hundreds of dollars, so such a sale would mean huge savings for consumers. This was not a legitimate offer from Ray-Ban. It is a dangerous scam. It's been going around for several years, including on Tumblr. Tweets that promoted the scam read: Friends, the surprise is coming. Are you interested? They appeared to involve phishing attempts that pulled follower names from a user's follower list. This caused the scam to virally spread. The scammers appeared to gain access to social media accounts after users visited the dangerous website that appeared in this image: We strongly advise against visiting the website. Providing information to scammers could lead to identity theft and other harmful outcomes. While the image did say that the scam website was Ray-Ban's official website, this was false. The 5-letter website that appeared in the social media postings began with rb, as in rb---.com. We have removed the last three letters from the website address so as to not encourage readers to visit the fake website. This was not an official Ray-Ban website. The official Ray-Ban website is ray-ban.com. The company is owned by Luxottica. As of June 1, 2021, the official Ray-Ban Twitter account had not tweeted about the resurgence of the anniversary sale scam. However, a search for past tweets showed other 5-letter scam websites that also began with rb---.com, except with other combinations of three letters following rb. Scammers have often used the ploy that major companies (like Ray-Ban) are having anniversary sales in order to trick consumers into falling into the trap. We've reported on a seemingly endless number of these scams in the past. For example, Aldi, Tim Hortons, Taco Bell, and Walmart have all been used in anniversary sale scams, to name a few. We've even seen vacation scams on Facebook for getaways to Bora Bora and Las Vegas that may have tricked people into sharing the fake giveaways. In sum, Ray-Ban nor Luxottica is not offering 90% off sunglasses for 24 hours for its 84th anniversary, or any anniversary. (en)
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