Facebook Contests are PR Scams

These contests never have real life winners unless it’s junk that advertises their regular products. Shirts, hats, sweatbands.
These contests are created to get people to like their page, subscribe to their content and to harvest email addresses for news letters and later to be sold to spammers to fill your email box with junkmail.

This is the lowest form of spam. It’s an old form of spam also. Just with a social media twist.

It looks like a lot of these are put together by the same Pr group hired to “increase social media activity”.
Kind of like the search engine optimization companies who call you about increasing traffic to your website and making it easier to find in search engines… Um… how did they find your website to call you?

Well these winners do not exist. They are just members of the Social traffic companies hired to increase traffic to a company’s twitter and Facebook.

It’s time to move on from Facebook.

Are you getting Strange Spam Text Messages Lately?

We are trying to find the connection in all of these text messages that everyone seems to be getting. So we are checking to see if certain phone companies are either compromised or selling our phone numbers out to the next bidder.

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No need for any personal information. Just who is the carrier you are using when you get the spam invites to bogus contests?

 

 

ContestTexts.net Scam Text Message

Yet another spam text message came to my phone today.

Another text message from a scammer claiming I have been entered into some sort of a contest and have been made eligible for a prize.

wxchequer%kbrnd_dit[1-4] ContestTexts.net:You’ve finished Fourth in our Contest! Your Code is: XXXXX ContestTexts.net

Looks like the moron messed up his scammer application this time.

Here’s a few more scams We have received here in the past few days.

 

Poll trying to see if certain phone companies are selling our data

IjjI Giving away Gaming computer

ijji the gaming community that created Soldier Front the free online first person shooter (and many more free games) Has a new game they are about to release. The new game needs a name. They are willing to give This machine to the person who can give it a name. I have entered my five names. Let’s see what you can do.

They are giving away a computer. The trick is, you have to name their un-named next game.

Click here to name the game

Win Money, In forum.

Ok I am now sharing the wealth (buying some friends). IWorkWithTech.Com

I created a forumĀ  for techy people and video gamers. In doing that I decided to go ahead and do a monthly drawing for $50. It will not be a check or cash, it will be a shell gas card. The gas card will have a value of $50. There will be a drawing every month. You will be entered in the contest everytime you post.

Here is Where the Rules are Located

Just talk video games, or help people with their computer problem, or heck post tech news.

Join site and post.