Danger! If you receive a WhatsApp message like this, even if it comes from a friend, don't tap it!
This is how the deception works!
You receive a message from a contact from your list via WhatsApp! Since the message comes from your own circle of contacts, a certain relationship of trust is exploited. This leads to the report being believed under certain circumstances. If you tap on the link in the message, you end up on a website where you have to answer various queries.

Afterwards, as always with these fake competitions, you have to share it with a certain number of friends/contacts via WhatsApp.
This is also intentional, because it is the pseudo-editorial part of a competition, which in the next step wants to make the participant first a multiplier and then a victim of the fake competition.
If you have done this, you will be redirected to a competition form where you will then have to enter a lot of PERSONAL DATA. Data protection regulations, competition participation regulations, let alone an imprint, are searched in vain on the site.

At the end you will be rewarded with an “additional profit” in the form of numerous pop-up advertisements on your smartphone in addition to other dubious offers on the internet!

What do we have here?
Here we are once again dealing with “PRIVATE USER DATA”, which you as a participant make available to anyone.
“Just” data?
What most people don't realize is that it's YOUR DATA. In other words, your own data is fed into a database and the respective participant can then access a number of ADVERTISING EMAILS, ADVERTISING CALLS and much more. "be happy".
But not only that…
In most cases, such user data is also resold. Such a data set can then earn the seller a few euros.
… data collector and lead generator
We have often found EXACTLY THIS method, just with other vouchers as bait. In addition to Proleagion, other lead generators also collect data using the same method - much to the annoyance of the companies used as decoys. So far we have mostly noticed Proleagion, adpublisher, red lemon media GmbH, Lead Spot Media, 7sections GmbH and Planet49.
So these are data collectors!
The user is promised and led to believe something that is not true at all. The status post gives the user the impression that they could win cars, sweets, gift cards or, in other cases, airline tickets, but that is not the case.
STAYS AWAY from such “competitions”! Nobody has anything to give away.
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