Watch out, trap: The Lufthansa raffles on Facebook NO Maldives trip!
Almost all of us have seen this Facebook post in recent days: The Lufthansa allegedly raffled an all-inclusive holiday in the Maldives if you shared a photo, liked the page and sent another message. Sounds great, right? But no, that's not it. Because: This raffle is a fake - the Lufthansa raffles no Maldives travel on Facebook! Rather, behind it lies a common scam mesh.
Why are so many falling for the raffle?
© Screenshot: MimikamaThe scam is running according to a classic scheme: A large company that everyone knows, raffled allegedly a valuable prize. Because many users recognize the company (and trust it), they join in - too tempting is the prospect of the valuable price. We have already seen it with expensive cell phones or cars on Facebook - and now with a journey.
However, with this Lufthansa competition, as with every other fake, behind the Facebook page and the raffle are scammers and not the real airline. How to recognize this? For example, the missing blue tick behind the Facebook page name, as explained by the portal "Mimikama", which specializes in fakes and fraud cases.
What is behind the alleged raffle?
As already several times in other cases data hunters are at work here too. Anyone who writes the alleged Lufthansa page with a message, as it is in the raffle provisions, gets a message with a link back - here you should enter his data. This data is all that the cheaters are after. And winning a prize does not exist.
Whose data were first captured in this way, must expect annoying advertising emails and / or calls. And: In many cases, the personal data for expensive money resold to dubious data dealers.
Lufthansa Germany is not an official Lufthansa side. Please in the currently circulating ...
Posted by Lufthansa on Sunday, October 8, 2017Meanwhile, the real Lufthansa distances itself from the raffle and writes on Facebook: "We're just getting the fake account deleted."
So, keep your eyes open and think carefully when you encounter a raffle on Facebook that looks alluring! In many cases is behind it less a great price, rather than an annoying fraud on your costs?
