Dodgy Facebook prize raffles.

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Has anyone else noticed this new craze of sponsored ads on Facebook selling raffle tickets for bikes and cars?
They look dodgy as hell. They all use the same template and. An odd numbers of fixed tickets, say 7550 at £4.99 each. You pick a random number from a range and trust that the draw is genuine.

I spotted one yesterday where it claimed only 120 tickets were left, an hour later, over 2,000 were left.

This is gambling, appears unregulated, completely open to fraud and a lot of the companies behind them are registered to Eastern European sounding names.
I’d never seen these before and am seeing loads now in my feed.

Example here...£13.27 a ticket and 949 sold of 1950 ish.

https://www.revcomps.com/products/bmw-420d-gran-coupe

Facebook is getting proper dodgy now, they Police it for hurty words, whilst quite happily taking cash from criminals. Ever seen the number of clearly stolen goods on Facebook marketplace?
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[JackButler]

Fools cannot be protected from having their money taken from them. It's called the idiot tax.

If you educate them against one scam another pops up with a slightly different MO. If you help them through the process of recovering their lost money, that just becomes money that is sitting there waiting to be lifted from their pockets yet again.

There are some really easy to spot scams out there & most of us would wonder how on earth anyone would part with their hard earned in falling for them, but there are also some very hard to spot ones that most of us will have fallen for at some point in our lives.

The financial industry is so systemically corrupted by scams that many have now passed into the mainstream. The food industry, retail, nearly all aspects of your life will be bombarded by scams so that it has become very difficult to spot them.

These prize draw raffles fit well on FB, there they will find an abundance of their target demographic.
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[JackButler]

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Apparently they don't need to be regulated by the Gambling Commission, as they allow "free" postal votes to be sent. (then put straight in the bin).

It just seems odd that in an age of strict advertising standards and the like, this platform appears to be completely ignored by regulators.
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[stinkwheel]

[Easy-X]

I find it's the medium quality products that are tricky to find on eBay. I don't mind paying £2 and getting rubbish but £20 often gets you identical rubbish.

Best thing to do with the Facebook ads is report them as scams. My FB feed used to be flooded with "Shock news as Jason Statham quits Hollywood..." and then it's a fake interview where he supposedly reveals a new way to make money from a stock app or some such I've kept up reporting them and now rarely see 'em.
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[A100man]

Facebook? What's Facebook??
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[A100man]

[stinkwheel]

[bhinso]

If people are stupid enough to buy a virtual raffle ticket and trust that a fully legitimate draw will in fact be made, then

Bit like crowdfunding a product that doesn't exist.

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[The Artist]

I suspect some of the well known ones are legit draws but they are good money making schemes for the owners.

Offer £40k car as prize
Sell £50k worth of tickets
Winner gets drawn legitimately
Offer winner £35k cash because they didn't actually think about running costs of a fancy car.
£10-15k for doing basically nothing.
Repeat.

[A100man]

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[Jmoan]

[P.]

Friend of work colleague won a bike from there, paid £10 for a ZX10R

Some are likely scams, some certainly are not.

[Ayrton]

I had a friend that was close to some people running a retro video game group that often ran these raffles. Turned out every so often they would just hand pick someone they know to win and pocket all the money, usually £200+.

[MCN]

[andyscooter]

saw a couple yesterday

one for an audi quattro from the 80s and the other was for lego that's not yet available

the audi one used a picture taken at an event I went to so know its not real
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[owl10]

Some are real, some aren't.

A mate runs one just on a Facebook group, for fishing equipment.

Doesn't even have a website - everything is done via bank transfer or PayPal and Facebook messenger.

However, its well run, has 1500 members, runs about 4 raffles a month.

Winners can choose from a range of products which then get sent to their home address, or just a cash option. Every now and again he runs one at cost, or high profit with profits going to a charity chosen by the group.

In his case he started it just because he likes fishing - it doesn't really make huge amounts (a few hundred a month) and TBH with the time required to do everything manually itz barely worth it.

On the flip side its not his main income (so no need to make a lot), costs and overheads are low, and it means he keeps involved with the community and has the odd day out fishing

Relies heavily on trust, admittedly. Offering options means prizes are purchased once the winner confirms what they want. In one case the price of the prize went up before the draw took place so he ended up putting his hand in his pocket to cover the prize.

Weve actually thought about setting one up for bike gear and trackdays...same reason really...just to make sure we actually keep doing them!
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