Facebook page 'Emirates Air' has fooled thousands of people into believing they will be getting free first class flights for an entire year on the Dubai-based carrier Emirates Airlines.
Emirates Airline has since had the fake page removed, redirecting users to their official page .
The fake Facebook page was created on Aug. 26, using official branding of the Dubai-based carrier, garnering 33,000 likes on Facebook, according to Arabian Business .
The page claimed to offer the first 2,000 people to share, like and comment "thank you" before clicking on a link that leads to a Facebook application, free first class flights for an entire year.
The page also put up another competition for first class tickets with $5,000 spending money.
“The recent competition on Facebook offering free flights is a hoax and has nothing to do with Emirates,” an Emirates spokesperson told Arabian Business .
“Our competitions are always run from our officially verified social media channels. Emirates has been working with Facebook to have these pages removed.”
This isn't the first time this year customers have been disappointed by too-good-to-be-true offers with Emirates.
Earlier this year, 300 people reportedly snapped up $200 tickets on Emirates between Australia and Brazil, which the airline blamed on a system error on its website. Emirates had cancelled all bookings made during the error as the fares were estimated to be less than a tenth of the normal price.