A social media post accompanying a website link offering prizes in the name of Mohammed bin Rashid Ramadan Competition is being widely shared. Let’s fact-check authenticity of the claim made in this post.
Claim: Website offering prizes in the name of Mohammed bin Rashid Ramadan Competition
Fact: There is no such official competition being organised in the name of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The URL shared is a phishing website intended to steal personal information of the users. Further the domain of the URL is known for hosting phishing websites. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
There is no such official competition being organised in the name of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President, and Prime Minister of the UAE. We could not find any official reports or news articles in this regard.
Fraudulent website:
Further, the URL shared in the viral post, is a Ponzi website, tricking the users into providing their personal information. Upon clicking the URL provided in the viral post, one gets to participate in a quiz related to Islam.
Irrespective of the answers marked, the website offers prizes and following the quiz, the website further directs the user to providing personal information like name and phone number. Eventually, after a few steps, the website directs the user to share the link with contacts on WhatsApp.
Website Details :
This purported website is registered in 2020 and registration is valid till September 2023.
The domain ‘pages.dev’ of the viral URL, is known as a platform for frontend developers that is abused by some to host phishing websites. In fact, some subdomains of the domain ‘pages.dev’ are blocked by Malwarebytes because they were associated with phishing.
Hence, all these establish that the viral post is nothing, but a phishing campaign intended to steal personal information of users.
To sum it up, website offering prizes in the name of Mohammed bin Rashid Ramadan Competition is fake.
