In the last couple of weeks, I’ve stumbled upon several iPhone X giveaways on various Web sites.
Some seemed legit, and some didn’t.
I’m not sure if I’m allowed to post the links here, but I can try. If they get removed, it won’t matter.
For example, this one seems fishy:
https://www.republiclab.com/iphone-x-giveaway/
It ran last month, too, and when the countdown ended, it just got reset. Nowhere was the winner announced, the link remained the same, the page still kept saying “134 left” (whatever that refers to), and the comments below remained from the last giveaway (or, perhaps, “giveaway”).
Then there’s High Snobiety iPhone X and Moment lens giveaway:
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/iphone-x-giveaway/
which has no info on when does it end nor when and where the winner will be announced.
The CNET giveaway ended
https://www.cnet.com/news/x-giveaway-can-land-you-that-new-phone/
but no winner was announced on their Twitter feed or anywhere else, as far as I can see.
There’s also Hypebeast:
https://hypebeast.com/2017/12/advent-calendar-giveaway
Caseology used to have a link to their giveaway that ended a few days after it ended. That one used Gleam. The winner announcement was a bit late, perhaps because the giveaway ended on a weekend, I think, but it seemed it was legit.
Basically, a ton of them.
A few weeks ago, several Web sites and newspapers reported on the ZeroFox blog post on this:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/11/16458646/free-iphone-8-scam-facebook-google-youtube
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...are-Scams-promising-free-iPhone-handsets.html
but some of these I mentioned don’t look as shady as the ones The Daily Mail took screenshots of. Furthermore, the accounts these giveaways are on I mentioned have the blue tick, if that has any relevance at all, yet the strategy seems to be that of “fame farming” described in the ZeroFox report.
Has anyone here had any experienced with this? Or perhaps do you have any thoughts about whether all these are just simple fraud?
Some seemed legit, and some didn’t.
I’m not sure if I’m allowed to post the links here, but I can try. If they get removed, it won’t matter.
For example, this one seems fishy:
https://www.republiclab.com/iphone-x-giveaway/
It ran last month, too, and when the countdown ended, it just got reset. Nowhere was the winner announced, the link remained the same, the page still kept saying “134 left” (whatever that refers to), and the comments below remained from the last giveaway (or, perhaps, “giveaway”).
Then there’s High Snobiety iPhone X and Moment lens giveaway:
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/iphone-x-giveaway/
which has no info on when does it end nor when and where the winner will be announced.
The CNET giveaway ended
https://www.cnet.com/news/x-giveaway-can-land-you-that-new-phone/
but no winner was announced on their Twitter feed or anywhere else, as far as I can see.
There’s also Hypebeast:
https://hypebeast.com/2017/12/advent-calendar-giveaway
Caseology used to have a link to their giveaway that ended a few days after it ended. That one used Gleam. The winner announcement was a bit late, perhaps because the giveaway ended on a weekend, I think, but it seemed it was legit.
Basically, a ton of them.
A few weeks ago, several Web sites and newspapers reported on the ZeroFox blog post on this:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/11/16458646/free-iphone-8-scam-facebook-google-youtube
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...are-Scams-promising-free-iPhone-handsets.html
but some of these I mentioned don’t look as shady as the ones The Daily Mail took screenshots of. Furthermore, the accounts these giveaways are on I mentioned have the blue tick, if that has any relevance at all, yet the strategy seems to be that of “fame farming” described in the ZeroFox report.
Has anyone here had any experienced with this? Or perhaps do you have any thoughts about whether all these are just simple fraud?
