Are people that thick. Facebook "Competitions"

CosmicFool

I keep seeing these come up in FB where friends have shared and liked posts to "win competitions". They're a complete scam. This one came up earlier today.

https://www.facebook.com/Audi-Fans-355299695285423/

How do people fall for this ****e? 31k have already commented/liked the post to "win" the car. I'm beginning to think I should unfollow these people to be honest.

Zaph

Cheers OP, liked and shared.

Odhinn

CosmicFool wrote: »

........Are people that thick...........

Yes.

bennyineire

It appears they are, I keep calling people out on Facebook when they fall for this **** but they'll do the same **** the very next day

colm_mcm

I thought that ****e had pretty much finished. It was rife a few years ago, or maybe I’m unfollowing the stupid people now.

bennyineire wrote: »

It appears they are, I keep calling people out on Facebook when they fall for this **** but they'll do the same **** the very next day

The mentality is “sure what’s the harm, if I don’t win I don’t win”
What ends up happening is the page they’re following gets sold to someone who reinvents it as something completely different.

Birneybau

Yes

AllForIt

A white van have been spotted around the town suspected of abducting children. This is no joke.




The fact that most delivery vans are white is going to make them hard to spot so be vigilant.

Say Your Number

Reminds me of this thread a few years back.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057470414

Nonoperational

"People" in general are very stupid. Never be surprised.

theoneeyedman

I've worked it out, why I'm only seeing updates from 24 of my friends. The new Facebook algorithm can be reset by copying and sharing this post onto your time line......

super_furry

OMG! Liked, loved and shared! Would love to win this for my little boy Mikey who was born without a head and who has never hand anything nice happen to him. Would totally make his day but nothing good ever happens for me. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!

whisky_galore

AllForIt wrote: »

A white van have been spotted around the town suspected of abducting children. This is no joke.




The fact that most delivery vans are white is going to make them hard to spot so be vigilant.

It's the white van with the driver who looks a bit 'foreign'.

Stay safe, huns.

For Forks Sake

super_furry wrote: »

OMG! Liked, loved and shared! Would love to win this for my little boy Mikey who was born without a head and who has never hand anything nice happen to him. Would totally make his day but nothing good ever happens for me. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!

Unfortunately for Mikey, the prize is a hat

Pherekydes

Yes, people are thick.

There's already a FB thread. :pac:

freshpopcorn

The same people who shares this are the one's who are obsessed with men in white van kidnapping children, the Gardai driving with UK number plates, weird cancer treatments and every sob story going!

Wheres Me Jumper?

i actually manage a FB page, and we regularly run compos. not for brand new Audis sadly, just the odd 50 quid voucher.
we always select and notify winners.

it is a great way to spread word about your business, and the winners (and their friends) help in that process.

fullstop

Yes people are idiots. Saw one shared today to win an Audi S3. Unfortunately the Christmas winner Nicki M from Melbourne didn’t claim her prize so just share and comment ‘done’ to win the car. Of course this was the first post on the page but thousands of people still fall for it.

Edit: LOL, just clicked on the link...same one!

Dank Janniels

Dont get me started on the Liberal.ie!! Smyths toys +pennys vouchers every god dam day!!

The other worse type Iv seen was afew months ago for a trip to visit Santa. There was no company name, no website, no dates of travel, no name of where you are actualy going! Then when i clicked onto the main page it was clearly full of spam +click bait articles from afew months previously!

RacoonQueen

CosmicFool wrote: »

I keep seeing these come up in FB where friends have shared and liked posts to "win competitions". They're a complete scam. This one came up earlier today.

https://www.facebook.com/Audi-Fans-355299695285423/

How do people fall for this ****e? 31k have already commented/liked the post to "win" the car. I'm beginning to think I should unfollow these people to be honest.

48k comments...

Dank Janniels wrote: »

Dont get me started on the Liberal.ie!! Smyths toys +pennys vouchers every god dam day!!

I worry for the intelligence of people I know who follow the liberal and share their posts.

I saw one recently from a 'holiday company' for a cruise or something, they tagged the winner of the last competition as lets say Mary Murphy, when you hovered over Mary's name/clicked into 'her' profile. Her name was now Geraldine Flynn or whatever.
'Geraldine' had also entered this 'competition'. I mentioned this in the comments on the 'competition' and earned myself a blocking. :pac:
The Liberal use this set up a few fake profiles with pictures and posts and keep changing the names on the profiles gag for their competitions as well I believe.

F*cking hate those like and share and comment competitions, even the genuine ones.

Dakota Dan

CosmicFool wrote: »

I keep seeing these come up in FB where friends have shared and liked posts to "win competitions". They're a complete scam. This one came up earlier today.

https://www.facebook.com/Audi-Fans-355299695285423/

How do people fall for this ****e? 31k have already commented/liked the post to "win" the car. I'm beginning to think I should unfollow these people to be honest.

Ahh FFS, I call them facebook fools, do you ever read their comments?

ZzubZzub

Ugh. UGH.

My ma is terrible for it. I love her so much but honestly. The amount of times she’s commented “liked and shared” on a post that’s an advert for a holiday. It even says €1287 pp in the post but she assumes it’s a competition.

The same with “I know only 5 people will care and share” posts, “I finally fixed seeing people’s posts” and the obligatory “I do not give facebook permission to use my pictures.”

She’s not a stupid woman. It’s tealky taking its toll on the family.

dudara

I thought “Like & Share” competitions were against facebook Ts&Cs?

Either way, they’re part of the reason I closed my FB account. It’s nice to have that much less stupidity in my life.

Kimbot

dudara wrote: »

I thought “Like & Share” competitions were against facebook Ts&Cs?

Either way, they’re part of the reason I closed my FB account. It’s nice to have that much less stupidity in my life.

If you like and share this post, 1 cent goes to absolutely nobody.

Comps died down for a bit but back in full force again. I only browse fb the odd time but tempted to get rid of it with this crap clogging up my feed again.

dense

Well if was on Facebook it must be kosher.

(Can I say that still? Kosher?)

0cp71eyxkb94qf

dense wrote: »

Well if was on Facebook it must be kosher.

(Can I say that still? Kosher?)

No. That's Jewish cultural appropriation.

KungPao

Amen

Cutie 3.14

Zaph wrote: »

Cheers OP, liked and shared.

I had the sh!ttest day and I’m just after reading this and it just made me burst out laughing, thank you!

tenbob1

We done one last year, the lady that won was genuinely shocked when she came in to collect her prize. She reckoned they were all scams, and in fairness most are, the local business ones though are usually genuine.

(we only had 200 entries, )

Wheety

I just report the pages as scams and move on with my life. I couldn't be arsed telling people that they're fake anymore.

Ipso

Back in the day there was a viral email doing the rounds that let is know that if you’re withdrawing money from an atm and if you get mugged, all you need to do is type your pin backwards and the guards will be notified.

Lackey

But those I phones/ rangerovers CANT be sold (for some weird reason ) so have to be given away....right ??

Dank Janniels

I thought “Like & Share” competitions were against facebook Ts&Cs?

From what I gather ur just meant to like and/share the particular post to enter the competition. Getting ppl to like the page, sharing, and tagging 2 frends etc isnt allowed
I think

These are the same people who like/follow Cian Twomey, Rory's Stories and influencers/Bloggers

fussyonion

'Just comment 'DONE' and you're in the draw.'
'Done. I wud luv ta win the holiday me ma was knocked down by a mr price van on monday and broke her gee and it wud cheer her right up if i told her we wer off to cork for the weekend espeshally as me brothers in wheatfield after bean cot sellin cans of fake lynx'

DaverageJoe

Lilian Fancy Oats wrote: »

These are the same people who like/follow Cian Twomey, Rory's Stories and influencers/Bloggers

And the same people who'll spend days\weeks arguing over some stupid thing on boards. Every crevice of the internet is filled with people wasting their time with some manner of bull**** thinking their going to achieve something.

eagle eye

But I did win!!!

Gimme A Pound

tenbob1 wrote: »

We done one last year, the lady that won was genuinely shocked when she came in to collect her prize. She reckoned they were all scams, and in fairness most are, the local business ones though are usually genuine.

(we only had 200 entries, )

She reckoned they're a scam yet entered it.

Those "der a scam" comments to genuine company competitions must make the writers feel so woke. What they mean though is "I never win anything so therefore it must not exist."

There was one competition run by an interiors shop where a guy was complaining about the high number of entries reducing people's (i.e. his) chance of winning. :rolleyes: :pac:

hatrickpatrick

CosmicFool wrote: »

I keep seeing these come up in FB where friends have shared and liked posts to "win competitions". They're a complete scam. This one came up earlier today.

https://www.facebook.com/Audi-Fans-355299695285423/

How do people fall for this ****e? 31k have already commented/liked the post to "win" the car. I'm beginning to think I should unfollow these people to be honest.

I've won at least eight that I can think of, one was fairly epic - a pair of tickets to the Irish premiere of 10 Cloverfield Lane in Cineworld IMAX, a week before general release. I've also won a bunch of booze related ones, involving either hampers of craft beer delivered to the gaff, or free bottles of vodka in my favourite nightclubs on Saturday nights. Also won a last minute ticket to the Trinity Ball back in 2011 or 2012.

So they're very definitely not always a scam. I wouldn't consider myself a particularly lucky person in the normal run of things either.

ALL of these competitions were either Like & Share on Facebook, or Like & Retweet on Twitter.

kurtainsider

All the distrust and cynicism on here! Next we'll have someone come on here and try to tell us that life saving surgery on babies can actually be carried out without 10,000 Likes.

Amen

alta stare

I deleted facebook ages ago and im glad i did. The missus tells me about some posts which come up on her timeline and by **** im glad i no longer have it. Idiots. Alot of them seem to come out on those Facebook buying and selling pages. Dopes.

Now if i could only get off Twitter

touts

Ah bugger. I was going to drive that Audi to the hotel in London to meet the widow of the ex president of Equatorial Sudan. She has $100m for me. Will just have to take a taxi so.

RacoonQueen

Lilian Fancy Oats wrote: »

These are the same people who like/follow Cian Twomey, Rory's Stories and influencers/Bloggers

Is he still a thing? Was funny at the start but got boring pretty quickly.

edit: jaysus he has over 5.5 million facebook followers

touts

Lilian Fancy Oats wrote: »

[Rory's Stories

Actually that guy, and his girlfriend, are great examples of the problem with Facebook. A couple of genuine funny comedians made a break through thanks to Facebook and then every lad who prided themselves on being the joker of their Friday night pub gang decided to start making videos that are just painful to watch. Now it's impossible to find good new comedians because there are too many unfunny egos out there like those two.

Because there is no filter or quality control on Facebook you end up with the interesting stuff being drowned out by dross and scams. There are genuine competitions out there (I won a book from a local shop a few Christmases ago) and those could be a valuable source of advertising for those businesses. But now I don't even look at any of those posts because I automatically assume they are spam.

Reati

dudara wrote: »

I thought “Like & Share” competitions were against facebook Ts&Cs?

Either way, they’re part of the reason I closed my FB account. It’s nice to have that much less stupidity in my life.

They are/were but FB dont seem to enforce it anymore.

They were hardcore on policing it when announced first. They killed many a page for doing it.

Dalomanakora

I've won at least 20 of those "like and share" competitions on Facebook, received every prize I won too.


Some are scams. If they're offering a 30k Euro car, it's a scam. If they're offering something worth a couple of hundred and they have 1-5k likes on their page, it's probably genuine.


I don't enter many, maybe one a week, I just got lucky and won an awful lot of the ones I did enter.


I've won gig tickets three or four times, meal vouchers, vaping stuff, etc.

CosmicFool

bennyineire wrote: »

It appears they are, I keep calling people out on Facebook when they fall for this **** but they'll do the same **** the very next day

I used to call people out on it but I've given up at this stage. I've seen a lot of ATM skimming posts of late too. Always k****ers who post them too. Wonder is is legit or are they just looking for attention?

t1h9mgqsxopj0r

Lilian Fancy Oats wrote: »

These are the same people who like/follow Cian Twomey, Rory's Stories and influencers/Bloggers

I don't use FB. I haven't over 2 years. Are people still watching them????

Greyson Round Caricature

Greyson Round Caricature wrote: »

I don't use FB. I haven't over 2 years. Are people still watching them????

the facebook blocker works now so I don't see anyone who shares or likes it....brother says he's still doing the same schtick, I'm surprised Twomey is still going as its the same "joke" over and over, him screaming loudly, dressed as a woman.....suppose its the Mrs Browns audience he appeals to

theguzman

If they are on Facebook they are thick to begin with, Snapchat is for teenagers and Instagram is for part-time prostitutes.

Collie D

theguzman wrote: »

If they are on Facebook they are thick to begin with, Snapchat is for teenagers and Instagram is for part-time prostitutes.

What about Boards?

fryup

CosmicFool wrote: »

Are people that thick??

well considering this is the most popular programme on xmas TV for the past 5 years

.....the answer is a definitive......

YES!