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Beware Of Samsung India's Twitter Contests, they are BIG FRAUD.
Hi,
I’m a resident of Mumbai & a regular twitter user. I love to tweet on various topics & most importantly I like to participate in many twitter contests hosted by various twitter handles on the micro blogging site twitter. I have won many contests on twitter & also I have lost many. But it’s always fun to be a part of it. Many of these contests are genuine & the hosts play fair enough to choose well deserving contestants, but there are many FRAUDS & CHEATS on twitter who fool thse common people by organizing quizzes & contests on twitter and later make their own people as winners. One such FRAUD I came across is Samsung Mobile India (twitter handle: @Samsung_India) with their bio as
“This is the official India account of Samsung Mobile. We look forward to interacting with you. India • http://www.samsung.com/in/”
Samsung India organized a twitter contest on the 8th of Oct 2012. Here are few of their tweets,
8th October 2012:
Samsung Mobile India @Samsung_India : WIN a Note II. Tweet how you would use the power of #EasyClip in the Note II as many times as you can to win. Use #BeCreative.
Samsung Mobile India @Samsung_India : Use #BeCreative & tweet how you would use the creative power of#EasyClip in the Note II as many times as you can to WIN the Note II.
12th October 2012:
Samsung Mobile India @Samsung_India : #BeCreative & tell us what you would do with the creative power of#EasyClip. The more you tweet, the more are chances of winning a Note II
13th October 2012:
Samsung Mobile India @Samsung_India : Tell us how you would use the creative power of #EasyClip & maximum number of creative tweets would win a Note II. Use #BeCreative
Samsung Mobile India @Samsung_India : The more you tweet, better are your chances of winning the Note II. Use#BeCreative & tell us what you would do with the power of #EasyClip
14th October 2012:
Samsung Mobile India @Samsung_India : What would you do if you had the power of #EasyClip? Use #BeCreative & tweet as many creative answers as you can to win the NOTE II.
17th October 2012:
Samsung Mobile India @Samsung_India : Increase your chances of winning the Note II, by tweeting more & being creative! Remember to use #BeCreative
18th October 2012:
Samsung Mobile India @Samsung_India : Congratulations @SUBRAYA on tweeting the maximum number of creative tweets for creative power of #EasyClip & winning a NOTE II
Samsung Mobile India declared Subraya Assoldekar (twitter handle: @SUBRAYA) as the contest winner. But if you have a closer look at Subray’s twitter profile, you will find things which are hard to digest. Subraya’s tweets are protected & only confirmed followers have access to his Tweets and complete profile. He has only 6 followers & he is following 15 people on twitter with his total tweets close to 2,820. So this proves that he is fairly new or in other words a newly created account. The Contest organized by Samsung Mobile India @Samsung_India ran for 10 whole days i.e; from 8th Oct 2012 to 18th Oct 2012. Many people including me tweeted thousands of creative tweets regarding the same. But when Samsung Mobile India declared the winner on 18th Oct 2012 clearly showed how BIG FRAUDS they were in choosing a winner, who never exists. They choose a FAKE account holder on twitter who has his tweets protected. First thing if it’s an open contest how can they choose a winner with protected tweets? It clearly shows that Samsung Mobile India purposely created a fake account & made his tweets protected to hide the transparency in the contest. Many contestants including me spent whole 10 days tweeting regarding the contest and Samsung Mobile India choose a FAKE account as winner.
Following are few of the Tweets in response to the winner.
Sammy 【ツ】 @Deckle_Edge : @Samsung_India Was it about maximum tweets? The account is a fake account by the way.
Anita Swain @anitaexplorer : @Samsung_India Strange that not 1 'creative tweet' of d winner of#EasyClip - @subraya is amongst d TopTweets. Wonder what#BeCreative means
Suииy Dhaиoe @iSunnyDhanoe : @Samsung_India @subraya protected tweets,let him make his TweetsVisible so we can c if its a FairDecision.Let it b a TRANSPARENT COMPETITION
Jennifer D'souza @DsouzaJennifer : @Deckle_Edge Hain na..? It's clear..It's a FAKE A/c !! What if the contest is Rigged? @Samsung_India
Sammy 【ツ】 @Deckle_Edge : @DsouzaJennifer A clear possibility is there. @Samsung_India , like many other handles should have run a sanity check! Pity!
Raj Jadhav @therajjadhav : @Samsung_India I dint even see that persons name or tweets apart from @anitaexplorer n @iSunnyDhanoe n db crickrtlover n varun n puneet
Anita Swain @anitaexplorer : @therajjadhav #EasyClip went on 4 max time+got max participation & @Samsung_India decided a winner late with protected tweets :) #BeCreative
Suииy Dhaиoe @iSunnyDhanoe : @Samsung_India The Guys who are managing this handle are themselves Corrupt...and thy want us to #BeCreative. 1st stick to ur own words.
Avinash Mendha @avinashmendha : @anitaexplorer @Samsung_India @subraya Their decisions are biased... so why put up contests ?? i seriously feel like abusing u guys..
Anita Swain @anitaexplorer : @iSunnyDhanoe @subraya @therajjadhav True. There must be transparency. Didn't expect this from @Samsung_India . Dedicated 8 days #BeCreative
Anand Bambhania @amb1networks : @anitaexplorer @Samsung_India @subraya His tweets are protected so we have no way to check :( #wasteoftime#lessonlearned
Anita Swain @anitaexplorer : @amb1networks Yes. That's being incredibly silly thinking u r creative 2 win Note II easily! #BeFoolish @[protected]@subraya
Anita Swain @anitaexplorer : @avinashmendha We take part in contests with good faith & devote serious time & effort. @Samsung_India @subraya This is incredibly creative?
Avinash Mendha @avinashmendha : @anitaexplorer @Samsung_India @subraya guys... an explanation ... or show the tweets tweeted by the winner ...
I’m writing this complaint on the Consumer Forum just to open the eyes of all those innocent peoples who waste their precious time on such FAKE contests. It’s a kind of SCAM or CORRUPTION that is been carried out on a small scale by those people who are handling the twitter account of such big firm. So it’s not the company but the people underneath those big names who do such kind of scams. Not all contest are FAKE, some are really genuine and are working with utmost transparency. But people who are involved in such types of SCAMS & CORRUPTION should be banned from the Social Networking Sites like Facebook & Twitter. I would like to have a reply from the Samsung India Management Team about who these guys are who are managing your twitter handle, because I know it’s not the company who is involved in such types of FRAUDS & SCAMS but the people sitting at the wrong places. I’m a proud owner of my SAMSUNG GALAXY S2 and loyal customer of SAMSUNG Mobiles & Appliances for many years and I really respect SAMSUNG’s credibility & great responsibility towards their customers, but I would want to suggest them to have a look into their loopholes who are cheating the common people and even their own Firm.
Thanking You in Anticipation & looking forward to an investigation from the Samsung India Officials into this matter.
With Regards,
Sunny Dhanoe
Aug 13, 2020
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