Competitions Discussion Thread Part 10

Antispam

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Pebbles60_2

I have this morning registered on Prizes.uk.com & myoffers.co.uk and have since been bombarded with junk emails !

Any advice on how to stop them without having to unsubcribe to everyone I get

fire**fly

sites to be avoided, copied from Velvetgloves comping guide....


11 Are there any sites, from experience, which are likely to generate lots of spam?
There are a few which have come to our collective attention as sites that, when used for comps, seem to generate lots of unwanted postal, email & phone call attention. These are listed below for your information, however, please do remember that this is only the collective opinion of other MSE Compers & does not necessarily reflect upon the sites themselves.

2minutedraw
4FreeUK
ABCWins
Clash Club/Clash media
Club La Costa
Consumer Lifestyles
Consumer Opinions
Craftomatic Beds (Comps appear to be just a way to get a salesman into your home, especially if vulnerable/alone)
Emailinform
EZ Prize Giveaway
Fair Exchange
GetMeATicket
GetYourBillsPaid
GreatUKsurveys
Guide2Win
InstantPrizeDraw
Just-Rewards
MyChild (pester with phone calls quite badly, but Compers have won with them - suggest do not give a phone number!)
MyConsumer
MyOffers
NoizeMakesEnemies (Care - your profile with name, address, phone number & email appear to be on show with no way to make it private!!)
Opinioniser
Optimax (phone calls, letters & emails!)
Premier Christian Radio (lots of postal junk mail even when you opt out of future contact)
Prize4U
Plum Offers
PrizePunch
RewardsToday
Simple2Win
Space Kitchens (see thread here)
Tickbox
Topfox
Toyhound
UK-PrizeDraw
VoiceInACrowd
Vouch4me
Weatherseal
Weather Wherever
Willowbrook (chairs) (have pestered with phone calls quite badly on some comps - see here and also here)
Win 4 Now
Win24
Zenith Windows (linked to Weatherseal above)

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Gerrym1984

A friend of mine has apparently won a comp with the above company for a 7days, 6 nights cruise to Spain. There is only a £20 admin cost which would be fine if all is as it seems however he wants to make sure its not a scam...can anyone enlighten me as to how legit the website is? Has anyone dealt with them before?

Thanks in advance

EverDecreasingCircles

Sorry but sounds like a scam to me. Did he actually enter a comp with them? In my experience anyone asking for any money means scam.

EDC x

EverDecreasingCircles

Just done a quick check and seems that comp was run by Planet49, a known scammer. You may want to check this out:

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2008/11/the-catch-in-the-20-break-from.html

If you search planet49 on this forum you'll find several previous questions about it too.

HTH
Jen x

mr.mat21

Hi,

I have had many phone calls like that in the past and they are a scam.

Usually something to do with taking you away and forcing you to buy abroad.

Can't think of the word it is called, my grandmother was nearly scammed like this once before.

Please avoid. If you win something then it should be free not have to pay for it.

Mat

Sherif_129

Hi all, I have been informed this is the Scramble thread so I wanted to say this...

Look, you all have the wrong impression of me, you all seem to hate me and I want to clear this up.

FYI, I'm the PSP guy, and you may have noticed that my tweets have been going up and down lately. In fact, I lost around 20 tweets in total due to fake accounts being deleted. So why do you all have a grudge against me?

P.S I have no idea if the camera person, claire is here, but good luck to her.

rosemac

anyone having problems with getting on to Galaxy 1in10wins

Happy_shopper

rosemac wrote: »

anyone having problems with getting on to Galaxy 1in10wins

I've got a problem with it - it never lets me win! (But seriously, it's working fine now.)