We see hundreds of "giveaways" all over Instagram and other social media sites offering free goods for a like and a follow and a repost, seems easy enough right? But how many of those "giveaways" actually ever give anything away? Surprisingly enough, not very many. So I am going to give you some tips to help you recognize legit giveaways from follower generating scam giveaways. First sign that a giveaway is a BUST is when you see tons of giveaway posts but you don't see any winners ever posted. Most companies that are actually giving stuff away are doing it for promotion purposes and want to show the winners and have the winners respond, thus creating free advertising when those winners show off their prizes. So if you see tons of giveaway posts and NO publicly announced winners it's a BUST. Second sign is a long time ago people didn't want to flood their feed with giveaway spam so they made special accounts special for giveaways, some even called the page "vape giveaway" or "vape giveaways" and so when users are looking for a giveaway suddenly they find these pages with 10 million followers (all who thought they could win something too) but in reality it is a page some user was hoping to get lucky on and win with out having to flood their real friends news feeds. So when looking at a giveaway, consider the source. Check the initiating page and see if they have done this before and have lists of the people who won. Don't follow pages called vapegiveaway, they never give away anything and get upset when that fact gets pointed out. Usually LEGIT companies and SMALL companies are the best at giveaways because they want to get their name out there. Also large companies often have very legit giveaways. So just be paying attention when entering a giveaway, we don't want to follow and support people who are false advertising and leading us actual vapers on. EXAMPLES:Examples of people who just created accounts to compete in giveaways not people actually giving anything away 💯 Every page offering lots of giveaways WILL have winner announcements! No one wants to Giveaway something without showing that they followed through. If you don't see winner announcements, it's not a giveaway but a scam to get followers. Here is a perfect example of a REAL GIVEAWAY, Smoant gives lots of prizes away...Follow them. Perfect example of a page that is a scam. This page has 5000! Followers all reposting their pics and gathering followers for them without the person having to do anything. Lots of promises with no pay out is a scam. I saw a page just like this one last week, there were pictures of vapes and had the same instructions this page does. Leave your email? So you can be spammed to death, not win something. Be aware of all motives the page owner may have. This is a scam for sure. On this one the company has a website where you register for your "freebie"....there are tons of comments saying it's a scam but not everyone reads those. Any company asking you for information prior to announcing you as a winner is probably a ploy to get your information. There are lots of people who can do a lot with your information; whether that's just spamming your email, selling your information to other third part companies or other scam type things. We have to be smart in this world. As good people we can't count on everyone to be as good as we are. Just think, "what is this company gaining", a real giveaway wants promotion and people to post their winnings and show off their product, they won't do it behind closed doors. FINAL THOUGHTDont forget that there are plenty of real companies giving away actual prizes, you just need to focus on the things I've outlined here. Happy Hunting!
***These are based on my observations and right to the 5th amendment users are ultimately able to make their own decisions. I am providing advice to help those who may be unaware. No user name shown in these photos are under any personal attack, just examples. If you've been featured as a scam giveaway and feel you were wrongly catagorized please email me personally with prof of winners.
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