Let’s take a closer look at one of the most popular on Facebook. It’s called “Win Free Apple iPhone 6.†This contest has a number of steps you must go through to enter. Contests, of course, run rampant on Facebook and the social media giant doesn’t endorse them because they want to avoid liability. However, whoever is behind this contest has stepped back even further. The only thing they’re using the Facebook page for is to lure in more entries. To me, this seems a bit fishy. Let’s dig deeper.
To actually enter the contest, you go to a website called win-iphone6.com [1] . Wow. Someone set up a website specifically to give away an iPhone 6? Very generous of them. Not so much. The website owner is not located in the US, but in Australia. The IP address of the server for the website (where the actual web files are located) is in . . . take a guessâ€"it begins with a B and ends with an A and has an are-you-kidding-me? in the middle. Oh my, that would be Bulgaria.Lest you still want to enter this contest, here’s one more thing to consider. Here are the steps you must go through to enter the contest:
- Like the contest page on Facebook
- Share the contest page on Facebook
- Download a file from the website
If you weren’t worried before, you should by now be running for the door. However, if you still want to win that iPhone 6 despite the potential costs, be my guest. There are quite likely some legitimate contests on the web to win an i-Phone 6. Bear in mind, however, that in the long run it could be a whole lot cheaper just to pay retail.
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