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That Blanchardstown Centre account offering prizes on Instagram is a fake scam
Shoppers in the Blanchardstown Centre Graham Hughes / Photocall Ireland! Graham Hughes / Photocall Ireland! / Photocall Ireland!
IF YOU’RE AN Instagram user, you may have come across an account this morning claiming to be the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre.
The account asks users to follow, tag it and tag five of their friends – and offers a €500 voucher to the first 20,000 people who do so.
If you hadn’t guessed already, it’s a fake. (Offering €500 each to 20,000 people would be a giveaway of €10million.)
The real Blanchardstown Centre posted on their Facebook this morning:
One of the accounts appears to have been closed since its launch yesterday. However, the other has gathered more than 2,500 followers.
It has also posted these grammatically-questionable updates:
But that hasn’t stopped people falling for the scam. Reactions so far include:
And the Instagram search for the #blanchshoppingcentre tag looks like this:
DailyEdge.ie has reached out to the (real) Blanchardstown Shopping Centre for comment.
In the meantime, in case you’re still in any doubt: don’t follow that account.
h/t @darraghdoyle and @CormacComedy
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