If someone promises you a smartphone (Samsung or iPhone) for just €1 or €2, you should be very careful about what lies behind it.
An empty promise, a fake BILD article and ultimately high monthly costs: This is a nasty way to lure Facebook users into a subscription.
By the way, you are lured into this trap on Facebook via a misleading teaser. This teaser can also be found in the form of sponsored posts, so Facebook ultimately earns money from the rip-off. This story is based on the bait of an update that supposedly fixes the device's problems. This teaser looks like this:
Fake news masquerades as BILD!
From there you will be linked to a website that looks like a BILD article and offers smartphones for just one euro.
Annoying: If you think you're finding an informative article about a cheap smartphone, you'll just see a misleading fake. The fake cannot be recognized at first glance because the structure, presentation, format and logo are based on the original. The text is pseudo-editorial content and is fictitious.
Incidentally, this type of deliberately designed fake news, i.e. so-called “fabricated content” with the aim of making money in the end, is not on the scene for the first time. A few days ago we found a very similar fake news that was specifically designed for Austria and was a fake standard article .
The fake news has pseudo-editorial content that has no truth whatsoever and has no intention of being true. By the way, commercially operated fake news generally likes to follow the names and appearance of well-known, real news websites. It doesn't matter which publishers and editorial teams are being abused, the main thing is that it appears authentic. The published texts are pseudo-editorial stories, packaged in the look of a news website.
We already know all of this!
This fictitious text massively promotes a website. This is supposed to be where you get the smartphone. But be careful: this is an expensive subscription service. There you will be informed that you have to specify where this smartphone should be sent.
However, this field is a trap because this harmless address information is ultimately used as confirmation for a subscription:
What this page does not clearly show, however, are the contractual terms and conditions. These are then hidden somewhere at the bottom of the page, which you can only reach by scrolling for a long time. Here you can read:
“All new customers take part in the competition for the promotional product displayed. If you are the lucky winner, you will be notified directly by email. This special offer includes a 3-day trial subscription for unlimited online entertainment. After the trial subscription expires, the membership fee (66.73 EUR) will be automatically charged to your credit card. If you are dissatisfied with our service for any reason, you can cancel your account within 3 days. If the service is not canceled, the term is automatically extended by one month. This promotion runs until December 31, 2018”
Do you have to pay for this membership?
No, you don't have to, because no valid contract is concluded. This would assume that the price and the service had been agreed transparently, but here you are being deceived because the costs are distant and unclear.
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