Fake Freebie: Free Wine or Champagne Cafe Marsanne Bottle Thermometer
Before you head over to claim this alleged Free Wine or Champagne Cafe Marsanne Bottle Thermometer, be sure to check out our research and heed our warning.
As the home of the Gimmie’s Big List of Fake Freebies to Avoid, we research all samples before we share to keep you safe online. You may not realize it, but scammers and spammers are notorious for posting fake offers. There are lots of reasons why people post fake freebies, but usually it is about money. They build up a website or Facebook fanpage and then sell it for profit. Or, they take your info submitted in their alleged freebie form, and sell it to Spammers. Some even deposit malicious code when you visit their website!
The claim:
To celebrate the 29th anniversary of the Café Marsanne, they will be giving away a free wine thermometer with their logo. One per household.
To request your free wine thermometer please fill out the form ….
Simply attach the thermometer to any type of wine or champagne bottle and read off the brightly colored number which is displayed.
Findings:
- Cafe Chardonnay is a legitimate business in Palm Beach who isn’t giving away freebies. The scammers cloned that site (copied illegally) to make their scam site “Cafe Marsanne” look more legitimate
- There’s a SPAM Popup after submitting; they hope you’ll fill out the unrelated offer for Quality Health or Lifescript because they get paid if you do! That’s their motivation for putting up these fake offers. Whenever there’s a Spam Popup like this after submit, the offer is not legit! No exceptions.
- They’re busy little bees! This tiny little cafe in South Portland, Maine, has allegedly offered free stuff to any- and everyone on their anniversary for several years. How could they possibly afford that? Oddly, the past offers are still available now – years later.
- Here are a few of the other offers listed. Sadly, none of this has ever been received.
- On their 25th anniversary (or whenever they posted), they allegedly offered a free dinner plate (form is still up, and has a spam popup after submit)
- On their 26th anniversary, they allegedly offered a free pepper mill (form is still up, and has a spam popup after submit)
- On their 27th anniversary, they allegedly offered a free sharpening steel (form is still up, and has a spam popup after submit)
- The address listed is not a real address ~ 920 Maine Mall Rd, South Portland, ME 04106 – it’s an intersection with a Goodwill store nearby
- The phone number listed is not in service ~ 207.772.9981
Conclusion:
We strongly advise that you steer clear of this one. Nothing free will be sent from them. Nothing has ever come since this scam was first published in 2010.
So, to stay safe we highly recommend that you read our Big List of Fakes and learn how to protect yourself on every single freebie you sign up for. Read also: Getting Started with Gimmie.
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