Skin Makeover Store Freebies are ALL Fake!
If you’ve seen the free skincare samples from Skin Makeover Store going around, please don’t fall for them! Because, the whole site is totally fake. It’s got a spam popup after submit, and the samples are just not going to come. The only thing you’ll get is a lot of spam, or worse. Always use a secondary or throw-away email address to protect yourself from fraud and scams like this. Do you really want to give your info to Russian hackers?
Alleged Freebie:
- Before you head over to request a free skincare sample from Skin Makeover Store be sure to read our findings. These Russian hackers are laughing all the way to the bank!
The Claim:
- Fake freebie site:
https://skinmakeoverstore.com
- Shea Butter 2oz Sample (by White Naturals)
- Fake freebie:
https://skinmakeoverstore.com/shea-butter-2oz-sample-by-white-naturals
- This is the 2oz sample of White Naturals Shea Butter.Shea Butter is an off-white or ivory-colored solid fat extracted from the nut of the African Shea tree. Shea butter is mainly used in the cosmetics industry for skin and hair-related products (lip gloss, skin moisturizer creams and emulsions, and hair conditioners for dry and brittle hair. It is also used to make soap. In some African countries such as Benin, Shea Butter is used for cooking oil, as a waterproofing wax, for hairdressing, for candle-making, and as an ingredient in medicinal ointments. Uses and Benefits of Shea Butter Shea butter is extremely gentle on the skin and suitable for various skin types. Create DIY soaps, face creams, hair masks and more with our beauty must-have!
- Free Caffeinated Soap Sample
- Fake freebie:
https://skinmakeoverstore.com/free-caffeinated-soap
- How about an alternative to your morning cup o’ joe that you have to be naked to enjoy? Well here you go, peppermint-scented caffeinated soap! Jump in your morning shower and suds up and you’ll get a bit of caffeine right through your skin served up with a nice therapeutic peppermint aroma. You can start getting your daily caffeine fix before you’re even dressed! And there’s a bonus… topically applied caffeine is reported to be effective in helping reduce the risk of skin cancer as well as in lessening the appearance of cellulite.
- Free Sunless Tanning Butter
- Fake freebie:
https://skinmakeoverstore.com/free-tanning-butter
- You have an important event coming up and want your skin to glow. How do you catch a tan before the big day? Use sunless tanning butter!There are countless number of sunless tanning products available to buy. You can choose whatever you like, but test if you’re allergic first. Apply a small amount on your wrist and see if everything is ok. That’s a common problem with many self tanner lotions.
Findings (What makes it fake?)
- Spam popup after submit (an unrelated offer pops up and wants you to fill it out. The scammers get PAID when you do! They’re tricking you into making them money.
- This has been around since around 2017, and nothing ever comes.
- There’s a LOT of ads on the site. After submit, there’s another ad that makes it seem like you need to click it. Not a spam pop-up like we always used to see. But, definitely sketchy!
- You can’t actually order from the company. Orders don’t work!
- You can submit the form without filling it in.
- Very unprofessional site.
- There’s no company information, and the only thing you’ll find about the product or company is freebie sites sharing it.
- They use the same advertising account (Google Adsense ca-pub-1372367034163035) as a freesamplesmail – the website. There’s also commonalities with freesamplesmail . com/webseo/webseo/- the user webseo is on these fake freebie sites and the sample site.
- What legit worldwide haircare company would also run a freebie site???
- White Naturals is a legitimate product sold on Amazon.
- Castic sells its caffeine soap on Amazon as well.
- Finally, the Savage Tanning oil really gives this one away! The terrible picture was also used on this Russian fake freebie ridden website (
http://www.cosmobrand.ru/akcii-brendov/110-krasota-i-kosmetika/5771-besplatnyj-probnik-masla-dlja-zagara
) which uses this Google account ca-pub-5772248851468844. Do you really want to give your info to Russian hackers? - Although the website in question, Skin Makeover Store, does not yet have Google ads running on it, I suspect when they do it will be an account tied to these other known scams. It’s happened many times.
- After submitting you’ll see this spam popup on their website:
FREE GIFT
You see this message because you’ve requested some free stuff from our partners.
What’s the fuss is all about?
You know, sending free stuff to a lot of people is costly. So here’s the kicker:
Click the link below to load an offer and complete it (fill out a form if you’re interested, install an app, etc.). If you do so, we will send you something useful (not the usual stickers or other crap) along with a freebie you’ve requested. It may even be much more expensive than the freebie.
There’s just one small catch to this offer. If you don’t have 10-20 minutes to spend, please don’t participate. You’ll only waste your time.
Advertisers that provide offers are paying for all the shipping & handling and the freebie cost. That’s why we deal with them.
Now, we have only so many free gifts available. If you’re seeing this, free gifts are in stock as of March 9, 2022 . But, you can miss your chance, of course. So, hurry up and click that link below…
Click here to continue to the offer right now… [link intentionally broken]
Conclusion:
This is not a legit offer; it is spam. STEER CLEAR! 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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