Waterstones isn’t offering cheap ‘Bestsellers Boxes’ in Facebook posts
Facebook posts offering cheap “Waterstones Bestsellers Boxes” are not genuine.
One post says the author’s sister “works at one of their stores”, and that “if you fill out a short questionnaire, you can get a Waterstones Bestsellers Box for just £3!”
The other, supposedly by a former employee, says “you just have to leave a review and pay a very small shipping fee”.
Facebook labels both posts “AI content”, and Google’s SynthID Detector said all of the images in the posts were “made or edited with OpenAI”.
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Both posts provide a link in the comments that isn’t part of the Waterstones website. The company told Full Fact that it didn’t direct customers to sites other than waterstones.com.
Waterstones recommended their advice on avoiding scams. It’s worth checking whether supposed offers have been shared by a company’s official accounts, which often have more followers and a verified blue tick.
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as false because Waterstones says it does not direct customers anywhere other than its own website.
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