The creators of fake competition sites realize that they don't even have to make an effort to appear reputable. All you have to do is give the site a simple name and post a pseudo-competition, and the hordes of greedy people will come.
There is currently another typical example:
“You can do it on July 31st. Win a Cube Stereo Hybrid 140 TM 500 2018 worth 4,799.00 euros”
…that’s what the well-known and popular brand “Bicycle” promises. Everyone knows it, so it has to be serious.
What needs to be done for this?
Come on, let's all say it together: like , share , comment .
Nobody will fall for it anymore!
Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that! As you can see in the screenshot above, there were tens of thousands of users who believe that Facebook is a big raffle where prizes are constantly being thrown around.
Scrolling through the comments, you'd think you were at a mass wedding. More “I want”s than the average parish priest hears at the altar in his entire career!
How do you know if it isn't serious?
can easily recognize such fake sites . If several points are missing , you can be sure that the page only wants to entice you to like and share it:
Owner of the site / contact person
Imprint
Contact option
Conditions of participation
Exemption from Facebook
Although some of the points on the page above are met, the most important points are missing: contact person and legal notice! The only contact option is a link to the site's Facebook Messenger.
By the way, the site has now deleted its “competition”. But it's only a matter of time before the next posting with empty promises appears.
It won't hurt if I comment on it!
Not on the surface, except that you're showing all your friends and acquaintances on Facebook how gullible you are.
But the creators of such pages also have another purpose: in the first wave they only collect fans. And this works very quickly with this stitch. Such pages often have up to 50,000 fans within 1-2 days.
In the second wave , however, he begins to attract his fans to external websites. Now the user has to fill out a competition form all at once. With this scam, the organizer collects user data. This data is then stored in databases, which are then sold to companies. The other player then receives spam emails or spam calls from various companies in the following weeks.
Checklist
So, to help everyone memorize, here's a checklist of how to recognize such pages:
Users are forced to “Like” and “Share”
There is no (credible) imprint
No conditions of participation
No contact option
No correct company exists
Page has only existed for a very short time
No winners are announced
Prizes are provided by sponsors who “are not named want”
The winnings are advertised with copied images from the Internet.
For well-known companies, look for the blue verification check mark behind the page name in the cover photo
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