Crime & Safety
Falls Police: Suspected Scam Turns out to Be Facebook Glitch
What Cuyahoga Falls police thought was an online scam affecting its social networking fans turned out to be a technical error on Facebook's part.
It was Facebook all along.
had good reason to suspect their after 1,600 of the department’s social networking followers received a message to visit the station for a free gift.
Hundreds of Falls police Facebook fans opened the message and a few even arrived at police headquarters to pick up a complimentary trinket, according to Falls Police Chief Tom Pozza.
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Several media outlets reported the story warning folks about the suspected scam.
However, this past Saturday, the social media giant sent the following message to the department setting the record straight:
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On July 10th and 11th you may have tried to claim an offer from a Facebook Page that had limited or no content in it. This was caused by a brief technical problem at Facebook that has now been fixed.
We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. Please delete any blank offer emails you may have received from us as you won't be able to redeem them. We have identified the issue and we're improving our systems so this doesn't happen again. There were no security breaches to any user accounts during this time period.
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