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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Competitions in Social Networks are SCAM/SPAM/FAKE

You may have seen many advertisements on Facebook, as well as other social networking websites about competitions/games to win expensive products such as smartphones,laptops..etc. Do you think they are real?
Here after please don't think them as real. They are fake, and created to get new likes for their fan page..



I hope you know the price of the products they said to give to the winner. What will they get($$$) by letting you play the competitions/games other than new likes...It is actually marketing tricks. We are willing to win something from some competition. They have used that feeling of us to earn new likes for their Fan pages. At the same time they are also requesting us to fill some forms to enter the competition. That means they are stealing our valuable data in the name of fake game competitions.

They will post some fake names as winner in their fan page's wall when the competition ends. Some times they use their own staffs to let us know like he/she is the winner of that competition. Some times, they also use fake picture or pictures stolen from social networks to announce the fake winners.

Their main target is bringing new likes for their Facebook fan page. For that purpose they will lie a lot. You may ask me what i have to do?

Nothing big... Just report this kind of games, and competitions as SPAM/SCAM to Facebook administration by clicking the 'X' sign next to the posts.

Never Share the post to your wall.

Note: There are real games too, who will give the actual price to the winner. But they are few. It is hard to identify the real games or competitions because, all are come to us like real games or competitions. We have to check their page details for terms and conditions of the games. Mostly you will not find it, if it is not real game competition.

When more people are reporting this kind of fake games then the marketing team will decide to bring the real games. so number of fake competitions will be reduced..

Any how, there is no point of playing this kind of useless fake/real competitions.