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No, Kroger Is Not Offering a Free $50 ‘Anniversary’ Coupon on Facebook
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In March 2020, Facebook posts offering free coupons supposedly worth $50 in merchandise from the Kroger grocery chain began circulating with the claim that the company was celebrating its anniversary: Users who clicked on the offer were taken to a non-Kroger website where they were instructed to answer survey questions in order to receive their coupon: After completing the questionnaire, however, users were then required to click a button to share the offer with all their Facebook friends before they could retrieve their coupon. Those who complied by spamming their friends are then allowed to click a Receive the Coupon button. However, there was no actual coupon to receive. Like innumerable other free merchandise offers on Facebook, this one was a scam. We've had many occasions to alert readers to this kind of fraud: The Better Business Bureau offers consumers several general tips to avoid getting scammed:
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