This scam is appearing more and more often.
Companies or even celebrities organize or advertise a competition on Facebook. Those interested comment. And answers from these same companies or celebrities are placed under these comments.
But be careful! These are often fakes!
This recently happened on a site called Edeka RoterSand . A competition was published on this page on October 31, 2022.
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Numerous users commented on this post because the description text asked people to name their favorite coffee specialty. Users who did this received a response from “Edeka RoterSand”.
But these replies were comments from a fake site with the same name. These answers contained links that led to dubious sites.
When the organizer noticed this, he warned users about it directly below the post:
Fake comments from fake sites
This scam is particularly bold because as a user you are lulled into security that the comments come from the page you are on. You may not think about it or distrust the content in the comments, but instead open the links contained therein with confidence.
A click on the creator of the comment would reveal that there is another page behind it. But this still poses a danger for users who do not recognize this immediately and who unintentionally transmit data to the “free rider”.
Attention, data collectors
As Edeka RoterSand writes in the warning, this was also a data rip-off. As with fake competitions on Facebook, all sorts of user data is collected here. These are then passed on to third parties so that they can use them to contact you. – The consequences of this contact: spam and subscription sales.
On our site we always publish the latest fake competitions that are happening on Facebook and Co.: competition warnings
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