“Wow, that click trap could have been mine!” seems to have been thought by a young East Westphalian.
And “whoosh” he used the template to build his own click trap in an almost identical style. A little less dangerous than his original, but with increased likability .
What did the guy do now?
Well, he simply adopted the template, added a hyphen (-) to the bait link and equipped the whole show with other links. Otherwise everything looks exactly the same as before.
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As always, it starts with the message received on Facebook, which advertises the oh-so-great animated emojis. Our note again: there are no animated emojis from WhatsApp , there are actually more than enough emojis on WhatsApp, why would you want more?
Apparently, however, many people have a desire to decorate themselves with unique emojis, otherwise the successful deceptive tactic cannot be fruitful.
The process
The link now leads again to a list of instructions: first you should like an Instagram profile. Here, the young man from OWL makes no secret of it and happily collects fans for himself.
Step 2 follows directly: you should send the message to 10 friends from your contact list. Only if you did that would you be able to get the animated emojis. Here the young East Westphalian stuck strictly to the template and also uses the snowball principle.
We didn't bother 10 of our friends with these false reports, but simply looked at the source code and saw what happens if you send this false activation message 10 times: you end up on an Add&Fame platform.
(Screenshot: Mydailyfans)
And now guess who the owner of the site is?
Old acquaintance
Back to business? Of course, this same young man also advertises exactly this false emoji promise on his Facebook profile and also firmly claims to his friends and subscribers that these animated emojis work.
(Screenshot: Facebook, public status)
And he is no stranger now, at least not to us. We just haven't heard much from him in the last few months, but he has repeatedly latched on to the big click traps in the past. (see iPhone or various “shock” videos ) so that internally his click traps have been given the name “Bielefeld pattern”. This is: get as many clicks and likes by pretending to be false facts. Increase your own fame and make your own pages known. It's not about causing harm to users, it's just about clicks, likes and fame .
And now the Bielefeld pattern is expanding to include the wrong emojis.
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