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Competition Scams - Please Post Them Here
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Everyone be most careful of a Facebook site called Social Discount Network UK. They are running competitions and the winners are not getting their prizes. People who have actually ordered merchandise and paid are not getting their orders It is a scam and everyone steer clear of them. I won with them on 3 separate occasions. When I inquired about the whereabouts of my first prize I was given three different excuses and then they would award me another prize which never came. None of the prizes have come. This is the case with several people. Some people had won vouchers only to find out when trying to use them they don't exists. Thank you0
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Everyone be most careful of a Facebook site called Social Discount Network UK. They are running competitions and the winners are not getting their prizes. People who have actually ordered merchandise and paid are not getting their orders It is a scam and everyone steer clear of them. I won with them on 3 separate occasions. When I inquired about the whereabouts of my first prize I was given three different excuses and then they would award me another prize which never came. None of the prizes have come. This is the case with several people. Some people had won vouchers only to find out when trying to use them they don't exists. Thank you
Trust me you don't want the stuff they send you. It falls apart/breaks easy.Jan Wins: .0 -
(Sorry it is QUIZWIN - based in Netherland)Stupidly followed a link last night ..can't remember if it was via Twitter or Facebook offering some Tesco vouchers…Had to click a link and then answer a question..did that and then was sent a text for verification. I followed all the instructions, and discovered today that this is subscription type thing, whichc arries on taking £4.50 from your mobile phone every month until you cease it. It promises monthly prizes.. think this is very unlikely to be a winning service!
Perhaps this does not quite count as a scam…but its taken the coney for the first 'subscription', and if I hadnt checked this morning, I would have carried on paying without knowing..and thinking it was my mobile was gettign expensive! So I would say to my fellow moneytsavers..BEWARE!!!0 -
Hi everyone, I hope I'm posting in the right place. I've never checked this thread before, but will do from now on, it's really helpful.
I receive about one email every day (3 so far this morning though!), telling me I will receive/have won a voucher. It's different every time, sometimes it's for M&S, othertimes for Amazon or different supermarkets. When I click on the email, the inside tells me I could "Be the next winner", or "How would you like to have £100 worth of ASDA vouchers?" etc. Sometimes the amounts on the email title don't match the one inside and occasionally the company I'm supposed to have won with are different too!
I always click on phishing scam for them, but they all come from different email addresses. The thing they all have in common is that they all end with:
Click here for removal
Or send mail to:
Borsigstr. 9 10115
Berlin Germany
The thing is, they are driving me mad, but I'm scared to even click the removal thing, in case that is a scam in itself. Do I just put up with deleting them as I get them, or is it safe to remove them?0 -
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sofieellis wrote: »
Do I just put up with deleting them as I get them, or is it safe to remove them?
I get 50 of these a day. They are driving me mad. DO NOT reply or unsubscribe to them because they will just send more once they know the account is active. HTH.
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Hi all,
Just letting you know that I received a letter today from a place called The Prize Directory in Hereford HR9 9FN saying I will have won a valuable prize if my unique ID matches a winning number. There is a number they want you to ring (09061 583501) that charges £1.50 a minute, or you can text or send a S.A.E.
There was a similar scam going round a few years back I think, so I thought I'd just warn you all to be on the lookout again.
I hate people like this!!0 -
Just came here to post the same one Kelos. I got the letter too.
Anyone got an email for them so I can send them my killer stop processing my data letter?
They should be fined out of existence.
TBH I think the best thing to do with this is to pop it into an envelope without a stamp and send it back to them.Shhhhhhh...0 -
I got this letter today too!0
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This a long list of scam number which have been ringing me in the last two days, I wich I know how to stop them calling me.
08458 620102
02036349717
01602871999
001668071234
002892881999
001152881165
001161828000
001162821020
001416629190
001925517255
001738881118
001172923300
001927722929
001138282222
001927877777
01772555525
0015199922280
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