Fake account publications claim that the people tagged have won a lottery.
Finns have started to be entered into JBL-related fake raffles. Janiko Kemppi
In recent days, Finns have started to be tagged in pictures claiming that they have won a JBL speaker. The entry was made by a fake account.
“If you’ve been tagged, you’ve won a JBL portable speaker,” the image says.
The person marked in the picture wants to be transferred to another account whose name is, for example, “jbl.finland” or “audio.jbl”. There have been dozens of accounts and new ones have been created as old ones have been deleted, probably due to reports made by people.
This is what a post to which users are tagged looks like. Screenshot
Fake accounts use JBL’s real logo and real advertising images. The account description contains a link to the site to which the person is trying to be attracted. This link should not be opened, as it is a phishing site.
This is what the accounts look like, to which the award picture leads. Screenshot/Italehti
The site’s logo and color scheme are made to resemble JBL’s real site. The user is first asked to answer a few harmless questions, after which he is directed to “get a gift”. Pressing this button will direct the person to a new site.
The link first leads to a site that harmlessly asks what the person thinks about JBL products. Screenshot/Italehti
What is worth noting here is that the already promised win turns into a chance to win. A sure win is now only a “raffle”.
The website tries to collect a person’s contact information. If you provide this information, you agree that “the organizer and its current partners representing certain sectors can contact you by phone, mail, push notifications and automated calls, e-mail and/or text and multimedia messages”. There is no certain information about where the data actually ends up.
An attempt is made to collect contact information through a website that looks like this. Screenshot/Italehti
At least based on the site, the German company Toleadoo seems to be behind the lottery, which has come to the fore in the past, especially in connection with questionable Facebook lotteries. There have been various raffles on Some, where, for example, a cottage has been offered. Experts, such as the general secretary of the digital security management group of the Digital and Population Agency and an ICT expert Kimmo Rousku and a non-fiction writer Petteri Järvinen have had discussions on the subject before on Twitter.
Last November, there was a similar campaign in which the winner was a Dyson hair dryer.
Iltalehti is waiting for JBL’s communications to comment on the matter.