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Comment by PurpleRamen

8 days ago

Even better, the payments can be used to gain even more crucial personal data.

Payments? it's one single payment to one winner

Also, how is it more data than when you buy a coffee? Unless you're cash-only.

I know everyone has their own unique risk profile (e.g. the PIN to open the door to the hangar where Elon Musk keeps his private jet is worth a lot more 'in the wrong hands' than the PIN to my front door is), but I think for most people the value of a single unit of "their data" is near $0.00.

  • > Payments? it's one single payment to one winner

    How do you know? They can tell everyone they've won and snack their data. It's not a verifiable public contest.

    > Also, how is it more data than when you buy a coffee?

    Coffee-shop has no other personal data and is usually using other payment-methods. But still, there have been cases of misusage.

    > but I think for most people the value of a single unit of "their data" is near $0.00.

    This is a classical scenario for social engineering, and we are in a high profile social group here. There is a good chance that someone from a big company is participating here. This is not about stealing some peanuts or selling a handful or data on the darknet. It's about collecting personal data and scouting potential victims for a future attacks.

    And I'm not saying this is an actual case happening here, but to not even see the problem is..interessting.