Oh it absolutely is.
Back in the old days I used to talk about Facebook fraud, that being games that misleadingly and I would argue illegally advertised themselves on Facebook using either gameplay screenshots from other titles or completely fake animated cartoons that showed a totally different game. I would bring it back, but that would mean spending more time on Facebook and I’d rather chew a bucket of compost in today’s climate than spend time on there.
But I was on Facebook perusing corgis and I got inspired because I found this ad. Yes, I browse Facebook with the adblock off sometimes just in case I see a gem like this.
Don’t go to the website. They are offering literally everything for $93 and by that I mean any PS4/Xbox package you can think of, any Switch package, etc. They even have packs with the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X with four or five games for $93.
Now I’m not going to come out and make a definitive statement that this is a big fat scam, but this is probably a big fat scam. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. I will note that the Facebook page associated with this ad is completely barren and roughly a week old. There is no physical address or phone number and the photos are all stock footage. A Whois search returns that the domain was registered through Alibaba cloud computing in Beijing because if anything says trustworthy, it’s a company hosted on Alibaba servers in Beijing promising cheap electronics.
Oh and the website no longer exists. I found this last night and held off writing about it until this morning but the website is gone. It turns back an error 523 “origin is unreachable” now which suggests that the website may no longer exist. Hopefully nobody was gullible enough to see a $93 Switch bundle and buy it, but you never know.
If you are one of those people that stumble on this website months from now because you’re searching for the company to get your money back, contact your payment provider and file a chargeback. Also you might want to get that card replaced since it may or may not be on the open market.
MMO Fallout 