Concerned consumers have been writing to us for days about a dubious message they received via WhatsApp.
It's about an alleged 250 euro voucher from the fashion chain “H&M”. We reported on this topic for the first time on November 13, 2017. Since the media has gradually discovered the topic, there are again a lot of inquiries.
What is it about?
At the moment, however, another “H&M voucher” fake is spreading on WhatsApp and thousands of users are falling for it. The message itself is currently being spread more and more on WhatsApp! The reason for this is that as a participant you must first inform at least 15 of your contacts about this “promotion”. It's this WhatsApp message!
The content of the message as wording:
H＆M is celebrating its 70th anniversary and is giving away shopping vouchers worth €250 each! I just received one from here: http://hmgeschenke.com/anniversary
As soon as you tap on the link in the message, the following page opens on your smartphone and the user has to answer various questions.
Once he has done this, he will be asked to invite 15 WhatsApp friends.
This step means the message is being shared like crazy at the moment. Once this has been done, the user is redirected to a competition form.
Here he will be asked to enter his data so that he can take part in a competition.
Data broker…
What most people don't realize here is that this is about YOUR DATA. In other words, your own data is fed into a database and the respective participant can then access a number of ADVERTISING EMAILS, ADVERTISING CALLS and much more. "be happy".
But not only that!
In most cases, such user data is also resold. Such a data set can then earn the seller a few euros.
… data collector and lead generator
We have often found EXACTLY THIS method, just with other vouchers as bait. In addition to Proleagion, other lead generators also collect data using the same method - much to the annoyance of the companies used as decoys. So far we have mostly noticed Proleagion, adpublisher, red lemon media GmbH, Lead Spot Media, 7sections GmbH and Planet49.
So these are data collectors!
The user is being promised and led to believe something that is not true at all.
The status post gives the user the impression that they could win gift cards or, in other cases, airline tickets, for example, but that is not the case. KEEP AWAY FROM COMPETITIONS like this! Nobody has anything to give away.
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