Win a fully automatic coffee machine: Beware of fake pages on Facebook

Fragrant coffee early in the morning. Preferably freshly ground from your own fully automatic coffee machine. Many people would like that

And that may also be the reason why a fake competition on Facebook is posing as DeLonghi and claiming to be giving away a fully automatic coffee machine. You can read on this fake site:

Fully automatic coffee machine competition

Due to very high production, we are giving away ten (10x) DeLonghi fully automatic coffee machines worth €1500 each to our fans. Conditions of participation ⤵️ ✳️ SHARE this post? ✳️ Comment with congratulations? We will then notify the lucky person on November 4th, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. ⏰ with a private message or email. It's worth checking your inbox every day! ? ___________________ We are not affiliated with Facebook. We wish you good luck

It's clear: DeLonghi's name and logo are being misused here. The Facebook page wants to give the impression that it is an official company presence with a real competition. Here is our brief analysis in the sequence of images:

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Further information about such competitions can be found in our article “ How fake competitions work on Facebook! " before.
A list of the current fake competitions on Facebook can be found here .

This might also be of interest:

Fake competitions are fake news!

Links to very realistic fake news appear again and again on social media, but also in emails or as cleverly placed advertising banners. Not all fake news is the same. We are dealing with a very rough term that covers (too) many facets and is much more of a catch-all term than a precise categorization.

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In this article we will look at a particular phenomenon that appears frequently but is not always immediately recognized: commercial fake news with pseudo-journalistic content.

This form of false news is deliberately false content that is intended to persuade people on the Internet to buy a product, take out a subscription or invest money in speculative models.

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