So far, data octopuses have mostly attracted attention through voucher competitions in which you could supposedly win H&M, REWE or Amazon vouchers, but to date you have never seen a winner.
This is different in this competition, in which several radiant winners make their statements. But from the beginning...
You can now win concert tickets, and you can find status posts on Facebook inviting you to win Santiano, Howard Carpendale or Matthias Reim It then presents itself like this:
(Screenshot: Facebook, public status)
Only clicking on the status message and the subsequent page give reason to think:
What does the site want?
The structure of the page is very similar to the typical competition pages of various lead generators . There is an input field, there is a sponsor note and you have to provide your name and address details (especially on page 2)
(Screenshot: fundaytickets )
Actually (<- the word, which actually means something else) everything would be as usual. Participants must provide their address details and will be confronted with advertising via email, SMS, post or telephone . Each as he likes.
The competition organizer and the sponsors may use my information for advertising purposes by sending me information and offers (via SMS, post, email and/or telephone) that meet my identifiable interests and wishes
(Quote: fundaytickets )
This isn't new either. The only new things are:
The winners!
Incredible – there have already been winners! These are even presented on the page with a shortened name and picture, as well as a short statement. This of course makes this competition immediately trustworthy.
(Screenshot: fundaytickets )
Or not again? Because if you take a closer look and question the presented winners a little, you get amazing results :
all winners presented are nonsense, all images come from image databases . A little bit of search in search engines and… BANG!
The pictures of the winners come from image databases such as “GettyImages”, where, for example, the winner with the name can be found as a “happy female student
That arouses skepticism
Who is behind it, who is the organizer who cannot show any real winners and instead presents pseudo winners?
According to the imprint, the organizer is FunDayTickets AG from Zug in Switzerland. If you search for this name in a search engine you will find... nothing. Nothing at all. If you search for address entries based on the imprint data, you will find... nothing. There are many reported entries at this address , but no FunDayTickets AG.
We can't prohibit anyone from taking part in one of these competitions, but we can encourage people to consider how expensive their own data is to them.
Author: Andre, mimikama.org
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