Who are the people who organize these fake competitions? We wanted to know more about it and simply wrote to the operator of one of these sites.
The beginning of the chat was very direct: There will be more fake competitions on Facebook .

This is not news so far. We've been observing fake competitions like this for years, and yet there are always users who take part in them with gullibility.
Immediately afterwards we received our first offer to join the business.

So the competitions shouldn't be fake? We wanted to know that in more detail.

Apparently there are one or more companies that “generate leads”, i.e. that attract people interested in a product to the site. They are also said to be the sponsors of the alleged winnings.
That sounds almost logical, but there is only one small error: These pages only exist for a short time, and if you click on the links that should lead you to an alleged competition, you end up with data collectors ! Real competitions also contain contact details for the organizers or sponsors (of course they like to be mentioned). You won't find anything like this in such fake competitions, just lots of pictures and false promises stolen from the Internet. In this respect, we classify the site operator's above claim as a blatant lie!
The offer
After further questions about the creators in the background didn't lead any further (and we actually broke off the conversation), we suddenly got an offer:

3k = 3000 euros!
So there we got it, the concrete offer: 3000 euros if we “accept the deal”. In other words: keep quiet, maybe support these sites and only report on them after a few days, if at all. This shows quite clearly how much money such a fake competition can be worth to the operators.
We stopped responding. But the site operator said something true at the end:

“There will always be people who take part”
And unfortunately that is true. There are always gullible people who take part in such fake competitions and freely pass on their data, showing all their Facebook friends how naive they are by participating.
We can't prevent that. It sometimes feels like we're trying to drain a flooded basement with a spoon. But we can make sure that you , the readers, know! That you tell your friends about it!
We at Mimikama cannot do this alone. We need you . So that such fake competitions will at least have a harder time finding gullible users in the future.
Addendum:
By the way, if you think that you can easily get 3,000 euros: No. Fake competition operators sometimes react a bit grumpily, as one user showed us 😉

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