The Hymermobil competition goes into another round with the Facebook page Caravan Lovers...

Just yesterday ( August 16, 2018 ) we reported on a fake competition in which the exact same motorhome model was being raffled off.

The Facebook pages Caravan Lovers and Caravan 2018 offer the following:

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Screenshot by mimikama.org

This month the world's largest camping trade fair is taking place again in Düsseldorf. On the occasion of the event we are giving away a Hymermobil B-Class Modern Comfort 580.

This is how you take part:
Be a fan of our site –> Caravan lover
LIKE & SHARE this post
Write us a comment about where you would most like to camp

1 winner will be drawn from among all participants!
The deadline for participation is Sunday, August 19, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. (CET: UTC+1). We will contact the winner via a personal message. Of course, the competition is not connected to Facebook. Legal recourse is excluded!

The interesting thing about it?

The site has only been up since yesterday...

Screenshot by mimikama.org
Screenshot by mimikama.org

... and follows exactly the same pattern as so many fake competitions on Facebook.

Although the competition has only been running for 12 hours, between 6 and 7 thousand Facebook users have already taken part. This makes you ask yourself, how does this work on a site that has only been around for a maximum of 24 hours?

Since some people on Facebook are not yet aware that there are no real prizes in such competitions, we would like to explain again...

... the fake competition

Take a real or fictional occasion and tell the user that there is something great to be won on the occasion of these great events.

The criteria for participation are quickly listed:

  • Leave a Comment
  • split
  • like
  • send personal message

Sometimes a deadline for participation is added, but the competitions are usually deleted before this deadline.

To ensure that there are no actual winners, the site owner should be contacted via personal message. If the fake is successful, a new competition with a different prize will be created within a very short time. It doesn't matter whether you were able to win a car before and then a dream house...

The main thing is that users interact or follow a link that actually has completely different purposes.

Note: Typical indicators are also such promises - “press I like it and it will be added to our lottery pot!” and “whoever shares the post has a double chance!” and very important “the page – name-of-page – must be liked”.

What does a serious competition have to offer?

The competition of a reputable organizer must be transparent. Key features:

  • Site owner/contact person
  • imprint
  • Contact option
  • Conditions of Participation

Reputable companies deal with the topic of competitions on Facebook and present them correctly. Among other things, reputable organizers ensure that an imprint, a contact and conditions of participation are available, which are also necessary from a legal perspective. But be careful, because every now and then the organizers go to the trouble and invent legal notices.

It is therefore worth researching the information provided.

In the case of Caravan Lovers you can see the following information:

Screenshot by mimikama.org
Screenshot by mimikama.org

What's striking here: After all the fake competitions we've already reported on, at least one of these creators seems to know us. But evil comes to those who think evil... at least an official entry from a certain MimiMedia GmbH cannot be found . Only a Swiss company called Mimi Media . But this company has a transparent imprint, which we look for in vain on Caravan Lovers.

What else can happen

Note: Why is/was there this competition? Of course there is a financial interest behind these sites. There are various ways in which you can profit from successful fake competitions. Everything is possible, from harmless page sales to nasty subscription traps.

So far, we have seen a lot of fake competitions that these types of competitions are always very similar. In the first stage, they seduce with their simple participation. You should share and like a high-quality potential win. Anyone can do it, it's not a hurdle. This attracts people.

Possibility of “side sales” / “like farming”

With the help of these attracting events the site is then “bred”. The site operator is working to increase fan numbers. At a certain point, this site will be for sale. Fans just end up wondering what content they'll see after the sale and why they ever liked that page.

“Affiliate” option

Once the number of participants reaches a certain point, the description of the competition will be changed. The conditions of participation are supplemented and a link is usually included that you should visit. There are some affiliate programs waiting there through which the “organizer” collects commissions.

In the harmless case, these are partner programs that provide the participant with a lot of advertising; in the extreme case, there is a WAP billing subscription trap hidden behind the link for visitors via smartphone (from which the organizer also collects commissions, of course). Every now and then you can find these sophisticated Facebook pages for sale on eBay.

No matter what else happens: the advertised profit doesn't exist!

Therefore, remember: there is no one giving away this house, this mobile home, this Audi, 100,000 iPhones or 50,000 PS4s. No, they don't exist, these chivalrous benefactors of the Internet. They are more like tricksters who entice their users to eat out of their hands like click animals.


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