Dangerous WhatsApp chain letter floating around: don't click this link

Supposedly, Adidas is giving away a million pairs of sports shoes for International Women's Day.

What at first sounds like a great marketing campaign is a dangerous WhatsApp chain letter.

Munich - The bad news first: No,

unfortunately

Adidas

doesn't have a present for you for

International Women's Day

.

So if you've received a WhatsApp * message from your friends these days about free shoes from the sporting goods manufacturer, it's best to ignore it.

It is a dangerous chain letter, as the portal "verbraucherschutz.com" warns.

WhatsApp chain letter - This is how the scam works

Allegedly, a million pairs of sports shoes are to be given away on March 8th.

However, you shouldn't rejoice too early.

Adidas

has nothing to do with the campaign.

If you

click

on the link in the WhatsApp *

message

, you will be taken to a

fake website

that looks deceptively real.

Here you should answer a few questions.

In the next step, you will be asked to forward the message to at least 20 contacts or five groups.

This does not increase your chances of getting stylish shoes, but spread the

scam

further - with unclear consequences.

WhatsApp raffle - How to protect yourself

You should enter your data in a form - but not your shoe size or the address for the shipment, which would be more obvious in the case of a shoe raffle.

In some cases an app should be downloaded and tested for 30 seconds.

This probably

installs

malware

that spies out passwords or other personal data, for example.

If you have received the fraudulent

WhatsApp

message, you should neither click on the link nor forward the chain letter.

If you have already clicked on the link, do not download the app under any circumstances.

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False reports spread over and over again via WhatsApp *.

Recently there was more and more fake news about the corona virus *.

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