“Shocking eight-year-old gives birth” – be careful, there are expensive subscriptions lurking here

It's crazy what headlines you're dealing with and where they lead.

And again there is a “shocking” video (which of course cannot be seen at the end because it does not exist) that is specifically intended to lure smartphone users into a subscription. The lure appears on Facebook as a status post:

(Screenshot: Facebook, public status)

Whatever causes people to be lured by this message will probably remain a mystery. However, the further process of this subscription call should not be a secret.

After clicking on this status message, you end up on a page that is modeled on Facebook in terms of shape and color.

Here you are asked to distribute the post yourself and thus become a cog in the viral distribution machine. The hard-working ZDDKers have recently realized at this point: there will never be a video to be seen here, but what is interesting now is how brazenly those who click on are lured into a subscription.

Please choose

Once again a video is made attractive to you, but now you have to confirm your own age. This is supposedly possible by completing one of the 3 following “offers”.

There are three offers to choose from, and we will now take a look at these three offers.

Offer 1: Your favorite Apple product

You should choose a desired price. Well – did we end up in a competition? iPhone – Macbook or iPad?

Probably not, because after you provide your age and gender, the site also expects you to provide your mobile phone number. Hands off!

Offer 2: Download antivirus for your mobile phone

Very friendly, they offer protection software. But a look at it shows: this is also a lousy bait!

Because if you swipe down a little on the screen you'll see what a brainchild this whole comedy is: a subscription service! And that is NOT obvious at first glance , because the terms of use are described in the lower part of the page, which you cannot see straight away.

The coolest content with which you can pimp up your cell phone – that’s the promise. €3 x 4/week, that doesn't sound particularly cheap.

Offer 3: Get the best HD videos now!

Wow, HD videos. Another delicious promise. But here again: you want to have the mobile phone number.

Again there is the note at the bottom of the page: €3 x 4/week

Gogogy

That's the name of the subscription service that has a hand in this and wants to charge users up to €12 per week. Gogogy is not an unknown service and has already attracted negative attention several times. Among other things, Gogogy also attracted attention with the voucher scam.

(Source: Watchlist Internet )

Watchlist Internet has already warned in detail about the service's tempting offers, and we are doing the same here. Please do NOT provide your mobile phone number and, if possible, please do NOT click on any of the buttons if you are using your smartphone on these pages, as the option of WAP billing could be used at any time.

Like Watchlist, we recommend:

To prevent unwanted subscriptions request blocking of WEB or WAP billing as well as value-added SMS from your mobile phone provider . The blocking can usually be done independently in the login area of ​​the provider's website (note: WEB or WAP billing is referred to differently depending on the provider, e.g. as "content services" , "third-party services" or "digital goods" ). At this point it should be noted that a general block may block desired services.

Author: Andre, Mimikama.at