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dpaEconomy & business

Les sèche-cheveux Dyson à 3 Euros chez Carrefour en Belgique.

Publisher’s rating: Ces offres Carrefour pour les produits Dyson n’existent pas. Il s’agit d’une fraude en ligne.

The claim concerned social-media posts offering Dyson Supersonic hair dryers for €3 and presenting the deal as a Carrefour Belgium promotion. The review says the posts advertised the dryers at €3 instead of €299.99 or €500. Its conclusion is that the supposed Carrefour offers were fraudulent, not genuine discounted products. The excerpt does not identify the individual posts or describe a technical examination of their images or links. Evidence it does report includes information from Dyson and a statement from Carrefour Belgium’s spokesperson. The review reports that Dyson’s website listed Supersonic hair dryers for €399, which would be €396 more than the advertised €3 price. More directly, Carrefour Belgium spokesperson Siryn Stambouli told dpa that the images were false photomontages and that the company’s fraud department already knew about the posts. Together, the stated retail price and Carrefour’s denial address both the implausible discount and the claim that Carrefour was offering the products. The review also places the posts in a possible phishing context: it says such offers are often attempts to steal information, and cites Belgian cybersecurity and police sources describing personal data, banking details, and account credentials as common targets. The excerpt does not establish what any particular post asked users to do or document a specific victim or loss, so those general risks should not be treated as proof of what happened through these particular posts.

FACTLYEconomy & business

RBI waived Rs. 1073 crores loan of Jain Infra Pvt Ltd company owned by Jay Shah

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post combined three assertions: that Rs. 1073 crores had been waived, that the action was by RBI, and that the company involved belonged to Jay Shah. FACTLY traced the amount to an RTI response listing a write-off to Jain Infra Projects Limited. It says the information shared by RBI concerned willful defaulters and amounts owed as of 30 September 2019. That evidence supports a reported write-off, not the post’s claim of a loan waiver by RBI.

dpaEconomy & business

Das ist ein offizielles Gewinnspiel des Lebensmittel-Discounters Penny.

Publisher’s rating: Das angebliche Gewinnspiel ist unseriös: Man will Daten von Usern abgreifen; das Penny-Logo wird missbräuchlich verwendet.

The claim is about a Facebook post promising Penny gift vouchers to the first 100 winners. The review reports that Penny said in a Facebook comment in January 2022 that this was not an official Penny giveaway. The post invited users to register through a link, ostensibly after guessing the number of ducks in an image, even though the post described choosing a lucky number.

dpaEconomy & business

Canadese vrachtwagenchauffeurs houden een 'volledige nationale staking' totdat alle vaccinatiemandaten worden opgeheven. Voedsel zal uit de winkels verdwijnen.

Publisher’s rating: Er is in Canada inderdaad een protest van vrachtwagenchauffeurs gaande. Hier is daarentegen geen sprake van een nationale staking. Een gedeelte van de sector protesteert tegen de vaccinatieplicht voor chauffeurs die de grens met de Verenigde Staten oversteken. De Canadese truckersbond staat niet achter de actie. Bovendien is de gedeelde foto in de Facebookposts verouderd en laat die geen lege schappen zien die door het protest van de vrachtwagenchauffeurs ontstonden.

The review examined Facebook posts claiming Canadian truckers were conducting a “full national strike” from 23 January until vaccine mandates were removed, alongside a photo of an apparently empty shop. It distinguishes the actual protest from the broader claim: a convoy called the “freedom convoy” was travelling from British Columbia toward Ottawa, with a protest planned at government buildings for 29 January. The review says this was not a nationwide strike, and the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) had opposed the action before it began, saying it did not support protests on public roads, highways, or bridges. The vaccine rule at issue applied to cross-border trucking, not to all Canadian truck drivers. From 15 January 2022, foreign drivers entering Canada had to show proof of vaccination. Unvaccinated Canadian drivers could not be refused entry to their own country, though they would face quarantine and testing requirements when crossing the border. The review also reports the CTA’s position that the mandate would not change, and says most Canadian truckers were vaccinated. It acknowledges that the mandate could sideline some cross-border drivers and contribute to supply problems or price increases, but this does not substantiate a claim that food would disappear from shops. The shared image was not evidence of shortages caused by this protest: the review says it was old and had appeared online at least as early as 2009. It also notes that some supermarkets had fewer products from other countries, while citing reporting that food supplies would not completely dry up and that Omicron was a larger cause of shortages. Thus, the posts combined a real protest and a limited cross-border rule with unsupported claims of a nationwide strike and protest-caused empty shelves.