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Chain letter lures with false promises: Special caution should be exercised with this Whatsapp message

Social media and messenger services are particularly susceptible to scams. Recently, bogus sweepstakes have been making the rounds, such as the Association for the Study of Internet Abuse Mimikama announces on his page.

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Again and again bogus sweepstakes make the rounds on the internet. Recently, some Whatsapp users had to deal with fake sweepstakes that allegedly came from dm or the Austrian drugstore chain Bipa, like Mimikama reported.

Fake Eurospar sweepstakes lure with false promises

A bogus sweepstakes is also the focus of the latest version of the fraud machine. A dubious Whatsapp message pretends to offer a sweepstakes for the drugstore chain Eurospar. For the 100th anniversary, 200 euros could be won, according to the false promise. All you have to do is forward the message to other users. In fact, this is an attempt to lure unsuspecting Internet users into a subscription trap, as reported by Mimikama emerges. The scammers also focus on personal user data.

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