Scammers sometimes offer free gift cards or spinning a wheel for freebies. These are Scams used to either gain access to your social media or to collect personal information. Don't fall for them and also don't spread them by sharing such posts.
Don't Connect with Fake people:
Criminals often create accounts for non-existing people in order to connect with real people and then exploit their contacts. On social media platforms like facebook, make sure you don't accept friend requests from unknown parties.
Avoid clickbait
Whether claiming to offer a scoop about some breaking celebrity news, previously unseen salacious photos of some celebrity, or some secret information that can help you make quick money through some stock investment, criminals have been known to post links that attract attention; the links, of course, often direct to malicious websites similar to those used in the giveaway, contest, and survey scams.
Secure Personal accounts
If something does go wrong, you want to make sure that scammers cannot easily gain control of your personal accounts and use them to attack your friends and colleagues. Many accounts have a double verification option. This makes it harder for criminals to access your information.