A FACEBOOK page advertising a "Summer Safari Waterpark" event in Southampton has been taken down amid fears it is a scam.

The advertisement claiming 2,800 people were due to attend an event on July 30 was removed by Facebook for breaching community standards.

As reported by the Daily Echo on Tuesday, Southampton council chiefs urged caution and said they were unaware of the event.

The ad said: "We will be secluding off an area to host our outdoor Water Park in your city, so lets Get Wet n Crazy!! This Summer 2016!!"

It said people in Southampton can expect water rides, water coasters, rapids, flumes, a mini beach and a "splashzone".

It added: "Please note we do NOT request any data information, once we have licensing permission from the councils in every city, locations and exact dates will be disclosed."

Thirty pages across the country were taken down after readers spotted that the image accompanying the ad appeared to be of a water park in Nevada in the US.

Warnings from readers remain online, noting that the organisers did not provide contact details on the Facebook pages and there was no phone number, company name or address that could help identify those behind the project.

It comes after similar concerns were raised about a promotion for a non-existent tour based on the BBC's popular Total Wipeout series which proved to be fake.

Facebook later disabled the page.

Southampton City Council leader Simon Letts said: "If events are happening then they will have been through our events team, so only believe something when the council say something is happening.

"Until that point it probably isn't happening.

"It's making people believe something is happening that isn't true, so it's misleading.

"It's almost certainly a misleading attempt to get people to sign up for something that probably isn't going to happen here."