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Energy Mac Heart, a licensed reseller of Apple merchandise, warned the general public about faux Fb pages selling a supposed sale of a non-Apple smartwatch of their shops
Declare: Energy Mac Heart, a licensed reseller of Apple merchandise within the Philippines, is promoting GT20 Extremely smartwatches at half its authentic worth.
Score: FALSE
Why we fact-checked this: A number of faux Fb pages posted the declare, with some together with edited photographs of celebrities purportedly endorsing the product. Clicking the hyperlinks supplied within the put up redirects to a supposed Energy Mac Heart web page with a web-based order kind requesting clients to supply private info comparable to their identify, telephone quantity, and handle.
One such put up got here from the “Energy Mac Heart” Fb web page which has 1,100 followers. The Fb put up has to date garnered 1,200 reactions, 104 feedback, and 42 shares.
In accordance with the caption in these posts, the smartwatch is bought at P1,099 per piece and P2,199 for 2.
The watch is supposedly waterproof and impact-resistant, constructed with a high-quality titanium shell design, and options the S9 SiP working system, sensible buttons, and the “brightest Apple show ever.”
The information: In an advisory on its official Fb web page on October 11, Energy Mac Heart stated that the posts about their shops promoting the GT20 smartwatch are faux.
“We ask you to stay vigilant and chorus from interacting with these faux accounts/pages to keep away from any inconvenience and fraudulent transactions,” the advisory learn.
The official Fb web page of Energy Mac Heart has 2.3 million followers thus far, whereas its official web site is powermaccenter.com.
Not an Apple product: The GT20 Extremely watch is described as having an “Apple show,” however it isn’t an official Apple product. The newest model of Apple smartwatches is Sequence 9, with costs beginning at P26,490. There is no such thing as a “GT20 Extremely” smartwatch collection manufactured by Apple. – James Patrick Cruz/Rappler.com
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