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Facebook Hoax Had Users Believing Eminem Would Give Away Cadillac Ciel

A sincere “thank you” to Autoblog for turning us on to the most laughably silly demonstration of the gullibility of the masses we’ve read in a long, long time.

So apparently, scores of Facebook users legitimately believed a post from an Eminem fan page (not the official fan page, mind you) that the rapper/actor/wordsmith himself would be giving away one (1) Cadillac Ciel concept to some lucky individual on the interwebs.

The post read as follows:

“Only 24 Days Until Christmas, Can you Imagine yourself driving this Car? I’m about to make that happen, Its Official, I Will be giving away this 2014 Cadillac Ciel to one random lucky fan, all you gotta do is follow these three easy steps, Step 1) Share this photo, Step 2) Like my page, Slim Shady Step 3) Like this photo, Winner Will be picked On December 5th 4 Days Away, Good luck to Everyone!!”

Uhm, yeah. If the fact that the post appeared on a faux fan page with only six hundred-thousand or so followers didn’t tip you off, we’d hope that at least the disturbing abuse of capital letters and commas would. Autoblog actually reached out to Cadillac Spokesman David Caldwell, who said that the post appears every few months with near enough the same text, and then vanishes mysteriously on the deadline.

Ultimately, we leave you with this: friends don’t let friends share nonsense Facebook rubbish. Be a pal; stop the spread.

Aaron Brzozowski is a writer and motoring enthusiast from Detroit with an affinity for '80s German steel. He is not active on the Twitter these days, but you may send him a courier pigeon.

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  1. Alright so how do we all know then when it’s fake r not? It’s sounds so amazing to know that a rapper who really started from the bottom wants to give back! How can we know if it’s the truth at spam? Totally sucks that people r out there to feed us BS when we truly r grateful for an opportunity to recieve something amazing from someone who understands r everyday struggle!

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