There is a virus spreading like wildfire on Facebook tonight. The scam offers free southwest airline tickets BUT when you click, it spreads the virus to other people on your friends list, and the landing page is malicious, probably downloads spyware and definitely tries to put the victim through multiple questionnaires and surveys - collecting as much information as they can for identity theft and/or trying to ascertain passwords to banking accounts.
DO NOT CLICK ON IT when you see it on Facebook. DO NOT CLICK!
You can report it to Facebook as a spam or just ignore it. But do not click on it. It will only spread further.
Here is what one looks like on my wall:
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