Lidl “Re-opening competition”: A new trend among fake competitions on Facebook can be seen. Food retail chains are increasingly being used for fake competitions.
Last week we warned about fake competitions posing as REWE and Edeka. Now there is a fake that claims to be Lidl and appeared alleged Aldi reopening The process is identical.
Users are encouraged to share the post and leave a comment to win a VW Golf GTI. But in the end there are only affiliate competitions (data trading). Important: absolutely nothing to do with this posting or the Facebook page
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Note: 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!
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 .
Also interesting:
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 a separate article, we will address a specific phenomenon that occurs 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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