As every year, dubious competitions are sent via WhatsApp shortly before Easter. This year too. Apparently you can get a free Easter gift basket from Milka.

It is this message:

Screenshot: WhatsApp message “Free Easter gift baskets from Milkas” (sic!)
Screenshot: WhatsApp message “Free Easter gift baskets from Milkas” (sic!)

If you tap on the message, you will be redirected to a website that looks as if you were on Milka's website. This is intended to create trust, but the website was NOT from Milka. You can also recognize it by the URL that points to *.RU.

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After answering a few questions, you still have to send the message to countless WhatsApp contacts. This function also creates the original message that you have already received from an existing contact. Only when you have forwarded the message to 20 contacts can you complete the supposed “competition”.

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If you tap “Complete” in the WhatsApp message, several more browser windows open again and again. You can see everything there, except there is NO MILKA COMPETITION, where there is an Easter gift basket at the end. During our test, in addition to dubious “subscription trap apps”, we were also informed that there was a “cleaning update” for our smartphone and that you could use it to “clean” your phone and make it faster!

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DANGER! This is a Trojan!

Conclusion:

WhatsApp users are lured into a trap under false pretenses. Scammers pose as “MILKA” and promise users a Milka Easter gift basket. However, this is not true. The aim of the fraud is for gullible users to fall into expensive subscription traps or, in the worst case, even to catch a Trojan, which in turn can attack the owner's private data!


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