FACT CHECK: Adidas offering free shoes on International Women's Day 2021? Know the truth
People are receiving a message on WhatsApp that claims to offer Adidas shoes for free this Women's Day.
Online scams and frauds are becoming more usual across the world with each passing day. With Women's Day just round the corner, scamsters have all the more reasons and ways to dupe innocent consumers. Now, people are receiving a message on messaging platform WhatsApp that claims to offer Adidas shoes for free this Women's Day.
This is not the first time that scamsters are using such ways to dupe consumers. It has been observed that online cheats are using other social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram to trick innocent people. Unfortunately, thousands of people are falling prey to online hunters and losing a lot of their hard-earned money.
This is not the first occasion, where message this type of message is being circulated on WhatsApp or other messaging platforms.
No. If Adidas was offering free footwear on Women's Day, they would have updated the official website first or the social media handles. On the official website of Adidas, no such offer was announced.
Firstly, every fake website will have grammatical errors or some spelling errors, for example, this fake message which is circulating on WhatsApp has also an error in the spelling of Adidas. The original spelling of Adidas includes a single 'S'. While the fake message includes 'SS'.
If you take a closer look at the URL, it mentions "vapp.buzz/adidass", the spelling of Adidas is misspelled in this case.