On October 4th, the Facebook page “Hyundai Georgi” published a post, announcing that the company is giving away cars of the AUDI brand, for which the user should share the page’s posts in Facebook groups. The page attaches a photo of the winners to the post and additionally notes that the company plans to raffle out 6 more cars.
The alleged giveaway is promoted by a fake Facebook page, which aims to mislead Facebook users. The official page of Hyundai Georgia notes that they do not have such a giveaway, and the brand name is being misused on social media.
The fake page ‘Hyundai Georgi’ was created on July 25th, 202. It was originally called BEKO Georgi, and the name was changed on September 3rd. The transparency section of the page states that the page is managed by 3 admins from Indonesia. The “About us” section of the page indicates real estate in the category field, while the company’s website, address or other data are not available.
In addition to the profile and cover photos, there are 3 more posts published on the page. All of them are accompanied by photos of cars, which are used to demonstrate the winners of the giveaway.
In contrast to the fake page, the official Facebook page of Hyundai Georgia was created on March 21st, 2011, and currently, its profile and cover photos are different from the fake one.
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The official page of Hyundai Georgia indicates a phone number, e-mail address and website address in the “About us” section.
In addition, Hyundai Auto Georgia published a warning on September 5th, stressing that the brand name is being misused and false information is being disseminated on the Internet:
Photos published on the fake page
The fake page features photos of alleged winners. In addition to the fact that the participation of Audi cars in the Hyundai raffle is doubtful, the published photos are taken from different websites. For example, one photo showing a Creta model car with a blue ribbon appeared on the internet on August 4th, 2022. One of the Hyundai dealerships in Indonesia gifted Hyundai Creta cars to its customers, and this photo reflects this very fact.
Another photo published on the fake page can be found on BMW’s website.
| Photo from the fake Facebook page | Photo from the BMW website |
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Similar fraudulent schemes can be found in other countries as well. For example, KIA Latvija and Hyundai Auto Armenia also feature photos of the “winners.” In the transparency section of said pages, as in the case of Hyundai Georgi, it is indicated that the pages are managed from Indonesia.
Fake giveaways in the name of various companies have been fact-checked by “Myth Detector” in the past as well. Fake pages promise gifts to users in exchange for sharing posts, thereby increasing the response and visibility of the page, and in some cases, fake Facebook pages provide a registration link where users have to enter personal data, which aims to fraudulently obtain the personal data of Internet users. See more on this topic:
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