HOAX: This website claiming Coca-Cola company is conducting a paid survey is a scam
The official Coca-Cola company website does not contain any information about this survey.
This website link circulating on WhatsApp claiming that the Coca-Cola company is conducting a paid survey is a HOAX.
The website promises participants a cash prize of $3,000 or Tsh 100,000 on completion of a questionnaire from the beverage maker. Participants are required to select a gift box to receive their prize and have three attempts to choose the right box.
A Who.Is domain search shows that the website claiming to conduct the paid survey was registered on March 16, 2020, and is not in any way linked to the multinational Coca-Cola company.
Who.Is search results show the legitimate website was created on September 15, 1998, with the registrant organisation listed as the Coca-Cola company.
Additionally, Cloudflare servers have flagged the site as a phishing site, further raising doubts about the website’s authenticity.
A look through the legitimate Coca-Cola website reveals there is no announcement about a paid survey.
PesaCheck has looked into a website link circulating on WhatsApp claiming that the Coca-Cola Company is conducting a paid survey and finds it is a HOAX.
This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.
By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organizations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.
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This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Najma Juma and edited by chief copy editor Rose Lukalo. The article was approved for publication by managing editor Enock Nyariki.
PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water/sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.
PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organizations.
