These winning photos do not belong to the “Mini Cooper 2019” Facebook page!

Competitions regularly appear on Facebook and captivate Facebook users. They hope for a really big win but in the end they come away empty-handed. In these cases, only the site operator “wins”.

We check competitions for their seriousness! This competition is not serious and deceives the participants. It doesn't meet Facebook's criteria and uses fake elements!

According to the Facebook page “Mini Cooper 2019” “Mia and Bao demonstrated it in the last raffle and there is again the opportunity to win ten (10x) Mini Coopers” :

Screenshot by mimikama.org
Screenshot by mimikama.org

The point alone - participants must share the post in order to take part in the competition - violates Facebook's guidelines (Promotions section) .

Let's take a closer look at the competition:

Analysis of this competition

Page info
You will often find no address or telephone number in the info on such sites. If the addresses are specified, you can use Google Maps to check whether they even exist and whether, for example, there really is a car dealership there or whether it is a residential area.

In the case of “Mini Cooper 2019” there is no information about the organizer.

Cover photo and other photos
Especially for Facebook pages that claim to represent a car dealership, it is worth looking for the cover photo or other photos online. Often the site operator stole the photo and added a new logo.

Even supposed winning photos are often stolen! Same here!

These are photos of a winning event from 2017 in Australia .

So Mia and Bao didn't do it...

Page history
Another indication of dubious Facebook pages is provided by the page history. Often the pages have only been created recently and contain nothing more than competitions.

Others are a few months old - but here too you can only find competitions.

In this case, the page was only created on April 9, 2019.

Result:

The operators deceive all participants! This competition is a fake competition.

Are you wondering what the operators want to achieve with such competitions? Just read our article That's why there are fake competitions.

Would you like to learn to better assess competitions? Read our article Facebook competitions: What is allowed, what is forbidden? .

Notes:
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