reported on a nasty WhatsApp message regarding a chocolate basket .

Now this nasty trap is also appearing on Facebook! You can see “Thanks for the Milka chocolate” status posts again and again at the moment:

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Caption in plain text:

Milka rewards everyone with a free chocolate basket to celebrate 192 years of quality service.
The offer is limited to (1 basket) person

From the comments you can already tell that it is a “fake”.

In detail:

If you, as a Facebook user, followed the status post, the whole thing would behave exactly the same as with the WhatsApp message. You will be redirected to a website where you have to answer various questions.

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On WhatsApp you had to send the message to 20 contacts. In this case you have to “SHARE” the post on Facebook and also say “Thanks for the Milka chocolate!” in your status post. write.

 

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In the end you will probably end up on another dubious page where you will find a competition form. However, this was not shown to us during our research. Instead we received the following warning:

ATTEMPTED FRAUD ALERT

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KEEP AWAY FROM COMPETITIONS like this! Nobody has anything to give away.


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