The Scam — Ellen DeGeneres is sending $750 or more in Cash App to winners on Facebook.
Facebook, which rakes in billions in quarterly revenue, allowed the scam to run on its platform for at least several weeks.
Since at least December 2021, a scam circulated on Facebook that showed pictures of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres promising $750 or sometimes $1,000 in Cash App prizes. Some of the ads said there would be 100 winners, while others said 150 people would win. The scam was exposed on r/scams on Reddit on Jan. 16, 2022.
We found at least four accounts or pages that were pushing the scam. They had names like, “ꓰꓡꓡꓰꓠ.ꓓꓰꓖꓰꓠꓰꓣꓰꓢꓢ-You Win,, see my post.”
It’s unclear why Facebook allowed this scam to go on for so long, considering the company has tens of thousands of employees and content review workers on the clock worldwide and brings in billions in quarterly revenue. We’ve seen scams like these with pictures of DeGeneres’ face plague Facebook for years.
The scams usually follow the same pattern and are laid out in steps like the new Cash App posts that featured DeGeneres. The strategy for the scammers is usually to make the posts and then later delete them to cover their tracks, just as we saw in the past with fake vacation giveaways to Bora Bora and Las Vegas. We removed the link from this example:
✨ 👑 SPECIAL EVENT 👑 ✨
Hello everyone….!! I will choose a random person to receive $750 prize for 150 winners!!! Congratulations to the chosen people I commented on “YOU WIN”, all you have to do now is follow the instructions!!
STEP 1 ”LIKE and SHARE this post”
STEP 2 REGISTER immediately here 💵👉 (link removed) 👈
STEP 3 Comment “DONE”
Note: This is real, if you miss this golden opportunity then your name will be changed to another name due to time constraints, thank you.
As an example of how easy it is to find such scams, something Facebook should have no problem doing itself, we uncovered several others while writing this story. We simply opened Facebook on a laptop, searched for words that often appear in scam posts such as “like share comment step” (without quotes), sorted the results by “Posts” only, and then chose to only see public posts. We were then shown a list of live scams. Within seconds, we quickly found scams that promised free money for mobile games as well as one for a fake Las Vegas giveaway.
If readers see the $750 Cash App scam for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” or any other scams like these, don’t click the links. Such scams could lead to phishing attempts or other potentially dangerous outcomes. The official Facebook page for The Ellen DeGeneres Show is facebook.com/ellentv.
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Ellen Lee DeGeneres (/dɨˈdʒɛnərəs/; born January 26, 1958) is an American comedienne, television host, actress, writer, and television producer. She was the star in the popular sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998, and has her syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show since 2003.
Her stand up career started in the early 1980s, culminating in a 1986 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, who likened her to Bob Newhart, and invited her for an onscreen chat after her set. She was the first comedienne invited by Johnny Carson to join him, a national, and the most influential endorsement available at the time for comics. As a film actress, she starred inMr. Wrong (1996), appeared in EDtv (1999), and The Love Letter (1999), and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixaranimated film Finding Nemo (2003), for which she was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the only time a voice performance has won a Saturn Award. In 2010 she was a judge on American Idol for its ninth season.
She starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998, and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season ofEllen in 1997, she came out publicly as lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, her character, Ellen Morgan, also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues including the coming-out process. In 2008, she married her long-term girlfriend Portia de Rossi.
DeGeneres has hosted the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, and the Primetime Emmys. She has authored three books, and started her own record company, Eleveneleven. She has won 13 Emmys, 14 People’s Choice Awards, and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts.