The “AUDI” pages on Facebook. What's really behind it?

They appeared out of nowhere. Various pages on Facebook with the names Audi Spyder-R8, Audi GT-R8, Audi R8-DE etc.

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And there are several pages for each “Audi”.

First of all: The pages on Facebook themselves did not come from AUDI.

Just yesterday we reported on one of these sites here .

Here it said:

To mark the anniversary, Audi Germany will be giving away 2 fantastic Audi R8s to 2 fans, which will be announced on March 13th.
To win one of the Audi R8s, all you have to do is:

1.-“Share” this image
2.-“Like” this image
3.-“Comment” (“Black” or “White”)

All these steps are necessary to register
*Don't forget to like the page to be notified of the results.

Another “Like-Awesome” page, we thought.

But now everything is completely different!

A new status post was published yesterday! But it has now been deleted by the creator.

To mark the anniversary, Audi Germany will be giving away 2 fantastic Audi R8s to 2 fans, which will be announced on March 13th.
To win one of the Audi R8s, all you have to do is:

1.-“Share” and “Like” this picture
2.-“Comment” (“Black” or “White”)
3.- End your participation here > http://r8-audi.de/

All these steps are necessary to register
*Don't forget to like the page to be notified of the results.

This is about POINT 3 and the reference to an “Audi” page

As soon as the user clicks, they land on this website. Here the user is sent an audio file with the words: “Hello! This is AUDI Germany…” welcomed.

If the user now clicks on the button: “Complete my registration”, then he can now choose an Audi and “only” has to decide between “WHITE” and “BLACK”.

If the user now clicks on “WHITE” or “BLACK”, this window opens. If the user clicks on the link again, then...

...then it will IMMEDIATELY be redirected to a MOBILE APP GAMES PAGE THAT HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH AUDI. The danger for the user here is that he falls into a CELL PHONE SUBSCRIPTION TRAP.

It's crazy how much criminal energy someone puts into making Facebook users fall into a trap.

If you consider how much effort this is for one or more fraudsters.

1. These pages are probably created by a fake profile
2. Afterwards, countless Facebook pages are created
3. Status posts are published - then deleted again.
4. A domain is purchased where the fraudsters can create a website and let users fall into the trap with this scam.

You can now imagine that such fraudulent activities bring in an enormous amount of money for the fraudsters.

Who is the organizer? Who is giving away such prizes here?

One does not know. The “About” of the page was not filled with information:

Another dubious competition!

How do you as a user recognize competitions that are not serious?

For example, if you can't find any contact options or an imprint, you should pay attention. You should also always make sure that there are conditions of participation that show who is allowed to take part (age restrictions, country restrictions, etc.).

Such prizes are usually posted hourly on dubious competition sites. Reputable companies create competitions every now and then, but certainly not every hour.

Let's proceed selectively:

Owner of the site: Not available
Imprint: Not available
Contact option: Not available
Conditions of participation: Not available
Exemption from Facebook: Not available and
The prizes that users can win are always very high-quality and expensive prizes!

These competition pages always follow the same pattern: like, share, comment.

These are the three interactions with which a page achieves the most reach on Facebook without having to place paid advertising on Facebook. Of course there are competition guidelines issued by Facebook, but the creators of such pages are of little or no interest in these and Facebook itself does not react here either. There isn't even a separate reporting function/option that a user could use for this. From a legal point of view, these competitions do not run correctly either, as there are no conditions of participation, contact information or legal notice.

It's all nonsense - we say, but we're happy to be proven wrong!

Reason:

1. no imprint. Who are we dealing with here?
2. no terms of use or no conditions of participation. Who is actually allowed to take part in a competition here? (location, age, etc.)
3. Announcement of the winner. Where and how is a user contacted?
4. Where is the notice that the competitions are not connected to Facebook?

Cheap and illegal tricks!

Such competitions, in which you have to share the post in order to win, are very cheap and illegal tricks to win more fans for your page.
In 99.9% of cases, as we have described above, there is no real profit behind it!

Dear friends of brass music! Stop making fun of Facebook users!

Especially for you, the competition guidelines on Facebook!

Note: The domain is here: http://r8-audi.de/ But it has nothing to do with AUDI! This was registered on March 9, 2016 by [email protected] ! The associated IP address of the host is in Holland!

The owner himself probably comes from Russia:

Dear Facebook, dear consumer advice center!

Please take care of such sites and scams and not about BLOCKING SATIRE SITES on FACEBOOK or the “ LIKE” button on external websites