Be careful: Facebook users will be lured into an expensive telephone trap with this competition!
Important: This fake competition has nothing to do with SPAR. The chain has no connection with the competition . On the contrary: the name SPAR is being misused and consumers are being deceived with the logo and the name! We therefore warn against the following method, which ultimately turns out to be a nasty cost trap!
It all starts with a status message on Facebook. This status message claims that you will receive a birthday present from SPAR Austria.

If you click on this type of competition, a website opens that claims to be a SPAR competition. Here you are first asked a few questions that are intended to simulate the nature of a competition. However, the answers to these questions have no relevance to the course of this fake competition.
At the end you will always be told that you are a winner and the gift card has been reserved.
Our test runs showed that this fake competition is only shown to smartphone users who are traveling in Austria.
Bad trap!
However, the big and bold ending is yet to come. In order to get the supposed price, you should call a “Wincomputer”. This call is made when you click on the “Click and Win!” area. clicks.
What is not immediately shown here, however, is that this is an expensive service number with costs of a whopping €1.81 per minute. This information is hidden below the visible area.
SPAR also warns!
Spar has already warned about this competition on Facebook, and we are happy to take up this warning:
Attention
There is another fake competition circulating on Facebook.
We are working hard to remove this!
You can still only find official SPAR competitions on our official SPAR channels (Facebook, Instagram, website).
Thank you for your understanding!
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