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T. Swift isn’t giving away Le Creuset on Facebook. It’s a deep fake scam.

By Austin Michael Jan 10, 2024 | 6:56 PM

Taylor Swift is NOT helping giveaway Le Creuset dishes. If you see this ad on Facebook showing Taylor sitting in front of a piano talking about how there was a packaging error and now she’s giving them away to her most loyal fans…….. DO NOT OPEN IT and give them any information. It’s a deep fake. Also, it’s not even a really good one. Her lips don’t match very well. Anyway, it eventually tries to get you to pay to enter this fake giveaway.

I’ve been seeing a lot of giveaway and contest ads on my Facebook feed. Almost every one sounds too good to be true. And they are too good to be true. The weirdest one I’ve seen is of Dave Letterman and Paul Schaeffer talking about how they’re giving away the sign from the theater where the Late Show was taped every night. They seem very real, but the contest seems completely ridiculous. So I double checked. According to CBS News, The Hollywood Reporter, and other news outlets, that one is real.

My point is that you might think, it’s on Facebook, it couldn’t be a total scam. Facebook has let a lot of that junk through because they want the ad revenue and they aren’t checking to make sure everything is on the up and up.