Win a Kindle Fire without protective film - sound familiar? - Money.pl

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By Marcin Chmielewski

experts Eset identified and led to the removal of another fake contest on Facebook. A trap was laid by unauthorized profile “Amazon Kindle Fire.”, Which could be seen promise to win one of almost 3000 readers Kindle Fire.

This is not the first such contest on Facebook, where the lack of the protective film is the supposed reason for the distribution of a large number of Internet users of popular gadgets. This time someone has used this model of deception and impersonated company Amazon, Internet tantalizing promise to win one of 2839 readers Kindle Fire. What should I do to the reader to win? It was enough to like the fanpage to share a photo contest and prizes from the description. Of course, the fulfillment of these conditions in no way nearer to the promised internet gadget.

– The contest is a typical scam, in which the terms of recruited the largest possible number of fans of the fanpage, then the issue of such a profile for sale. Of course, with the fans – explains Kamil Sadkowski, risk analyst with ESET.

Information about the false competition with the Kindle Fire has provided subsequently more than 16 thousand. Internet users. Why are so many web users could be taken in again? Replies gave Aneta Stremska, Doctor of Sociology at the University of Silesia in Katowice coach and training center DAGMA ACS. According to her, there are several reasons, including so that Internet users exposed to extremely frequent contact network advertising and various types of promotions are becoming less cautious. Not without significance is the false sense of anonymity on the Internet and the associated excessive freedom to share information about themselves. The key, however, is another factor – the automatism to use and the use of networks, including social networking sites.

– Many Facebook users click the “like it” without thinking, because that of his friend, because there is a lot of clicks, because something like that – without justification. Many of my interviewees said that the service Facebook has become for them so mechanical that visiting this site completely off thinking – says Aneta Stremska, PhD in sociology from the University of Silesia.