Real contest or virus mail?

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Hey guys, I’m absolutely new in this forum so I apologize if I put that Topic at the wrong place, but I got quite confused about what happend so i thought i have to tell. I got a message from “Unity” that I had to reenter my Information (like company, name, etc. just like when you register I think) and with entering I would get a chance on winning a Samsung VR Gear and a Samsung Galaxy S7. I was kind of stupid to really enter it, but that it didn’t had a password or username field - and also a big point was that it actually “was” the Unity website, with it’s design you know (I can’t remember the URL name but it probably also was the real unity one) - so I thought why not, unity is a big company so why not making a contest to get attention. But, how could it be different, directly after submitting I got a Windows message (Not really a pop-up message, It was an E-Mail, maybe in the same topic the contest commercial was) that sais “You’re computer got problems, repair it now” or something, and it quite made it look like a real message. Okay, I don’t want to write a novel here, so obviously it was a virus or some dumb spam thing and I didn’t press on the “OK” button, and of course not on the “Cancel” button either. When searching in Google after this contest, the only fitting result I got was this website:
http://sweepstakesden.com/unity-win-a-samsung-galaxy-s7-samsung-gear-vr-headset/

WAIT before clicking, I don’t know if that website or aticle was made by a hacker and I wouldn’t visit it therefore (even though nothing happened to me when visiting), it’s just in the case this is some hacker stuff then the Unity Support might get an idea to fix that.

But seriously, is this Content still real anyway? I don’t think so, please tell me if I’m wrong.
So you are warned by me, I don’t suggest to click on this E-Mail.
I’m thankfull for answers,
Cedrik

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If you weren’t mailed by unity it’s likely that this is not applicable to you, ie you’d not qualify. I’ve never heard of sweepstakesden.

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The mail was from Unity Technologies, just like a real one. But it might be clever faked, just like it happened with Microsofts fake contest when you got linked on the “real” Microsoft website.

Edit: Here’s a screenshot of the message
http://postimg.org/image/cpscdsl9n/

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If you got it from Unity it’s real enough - it should be visible from email header, and clicking it should only take you to unity’s own site to update your name or not update anything if the details are correct. Wrong forum section though. Gonna throw it in General.

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Hey, as I said apologize that I couldn’t find the right place to post it.

The E-Mail was from Unity and it brought me on the Unity website.
Besides, it would be nice if you could give me the link for the thread you’ll merge this,
thank you in advance