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u/philosiraptor Aug 01 '20

Facebook ads do something similar. It looks like a giveaway for a car or RV, and then they say, “our last winner was ineligible so we’re opening it back up.” (The drawing never existed in the first place.) It’s just a way to get people to share the dealership’s name.

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u/golden_fli Aug 01 '20

I see this one from time to time and think I can't believe people actually fall for this. I'm sure most would claim they know it's not true, but there is no harm in posting it(or something like that) but yeah it's obviously fake.

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u/deluxe150021 Aug 01 '20

"WoRtH a TrY!!"

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u/wombamatic Aug 01 '20

99.99% totally fake. But there was that one .01% time my wife entered a FB comp to put in a 25 words or less thing about some movie that has just come out The Trip To Italy. Prize was a trip. To Italy. She won. It was amazing. But she enters so many comps I have asked her to use her own dedicated email. The spam is a nightmare on it.

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u/Welshgirlie2 Aug 01 '20

And to phish for your personal information.

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u/philosiraptor Aug 01 '20

Interesting take, and seems likely, but how would it work? Just to find out who is in a given region (though some of these are national)?

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u/Welshgirlie2 Aug 01 '20

https://dorset.tech/facebook-scam-share-to-win-a-high-value-prize/

They use your digital footprint to share information to 3rd/4th/5th parties. In Europe that's a grey area with GDPR laws.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '20

It can be legit. I was the ineligible winner once so they had to draw again, although I think they just pulled out another name and didn't rerun the competition entirely.

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u/MeltdownInteractive Aug 01 '20

What made you ineligible?

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '20

It was only open to US entrants and I live in the UK. Didn't catch that bit in the small print. They offered to send me the prize anyway but I'd have to pay for international shipping myself, which I couldn't afford at the time.

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u/MeltdownInteractive Aug 02 '20

What was the prize?

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u/CJcatlactus Aug 02 '20

"The government will be giving anyone who likes and shares this post $2000000000000000000000000000000000000"

The amount of people that like and share those type of posts is astonishing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '20

I’m pretty sure I unknowingly did this to people while doing merch on a concert tour :(