Competition Scams - Please Post Them Here

debsy42

Bin em, scam !!

shelovestobuystuff

Weatherseal.
See my post on I won,Iwon,I won first my post title was "I have won free double glazing and a new door".
Its all a massive con and I am yet to see how badly it plays out for us.
Basically after being stopped by weatherseal reps in my town centre mall I agreed to a visit from a salesman.We got some prices for a couple of things we were thinking of changing but not for a few months at least.Then we said too expensive for us so thanks but no thanks.Salesman then asked if we wanted him to check if we could get our windows etc for free with the feature homes promotion.We said okay,worth a try.He phoned his manager then someone else and said we had been chosen to receive 100% of our order when we placed one for free.So after much checking that there were no misunderstandings we placed and signed the order based on the fact that it was all for free.We did not sign any credit form.
We gave him an admin cheque of £70.
Tonight we got a call from GE capital bank to check the details of the credit agreement weatherseal had sent them on our behalf???£320 over 10 years???Thats hardly free!!!
It wasn,t a case of you could be the lucky winner,it was a fact that we had been chosen to receive free glazing etc,but its all a big lie!!!
This surely must be illegal,fraud,should I get the police involved???

genkijen

I just had a phone call telling me i had won a weeks holiday in europe for 4 , looking at the slip it mentions something about PDL. I got cornered at the yoga show and filled in the details . I am pretty cynical but was given a freephone number to call. It came from 2minute draw .com does anyone know of this company?

catz747

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000001161,39171014-39001093c-20060524o,00.htm

"[...] which I suspect are part of club la costa [...]" :eek::eek:

:eek: run a mile!


Mr Loquax has some advice too!

http://blog.loquax.co.uk/2007/05/03/should-you-spend-time-at-the-2-minute-draw.htm

Gilla_2

I've just had this today:

REFERENCE NUMBER:Ref: UK/9420X2/68
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458


Xmas Bonanza

We are pleased to inform you of our end of year Xmas Bonanza, Your
ticket number 023-1111-790-458 attached to your email address,
with serial number 5073-12 drew the lucky numbers
43-10-42-37-10-43(bonus no.),this lucky number subsequently won you the
lottery in the 2nd
category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £743,437
(SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN
POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited to file XYL/26510460037/04. This is
from a total cash prize of £7,434,370. shared amongst the (10) lucky
winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.All participants of this
online promotion
programme were selected randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites
through computer draw system and extracted from close to 125,000
unions,
associations and corporate bodies listed online.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in the United kingdom as indicated in
yourplay coupon. In view of this,your £743,437 (SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY
THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN POUNDS STERLING) would be
released to you
by any of our payment office in the United Kingdom.

Your assigned claims agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him/her via
electronic mail(email) or other options made available to you.

To file for your claim, please contact your claims agent;
Mr Darren Lloyds-FIDUCIARY AGENT
Email:darrenlloyds03@hotmail.com


Provide him with the information below:
1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Thank you for being part of our online promotional lottery program.


I didn't know I was a 'unions, associations and corporate bodies'. You live and learn!

magzy1827

hi guys...

i also got a call a couple of weeks ago saying i had won a holiday to 1 of 4 places of my choice...all i had to pay was a booking fee for each person...although they haven't as yet asked me for money...so i went ahead and made the appointment with them to get my holiday..but made the appointment for this week to give me time to try and suss out if it was a scam or not....surely it is...i emailed and cancelled the appointment and as soon as i did they were right on the fone however i did not answer.....this is the e-mail address for the company....

https://www.hospitalityprom@aol.com

please have a look and tell me wot u think....:rolleyes:

amateur_saver

Has anyone had this one?

My husband got a phone call off his mobile from Indonesia (+91) saying that he had won the opportunity to stay in a hotel in Bali.
She said that he had entered a draw around the time of the Rugby world cup and that we had been picked to stay at a luxury hotel in Bali for $150 for the both of us, and that it normally costs $1000 a night. We were told we were suitable as we were both over 35 and could travel in the next six months.
All we had to do was stay there and then give feedback at the end of it.

She is going to send an email with all the details on it, and has rung twice as the first time my hubby was told by her that he had the chance to check it out on the internet and to talk to me about it.

We did some digging and it's basically a development visit, whereby you go and stay in one of their resorts and then you visit one of their developments and have to go to a 90 minute presentation for the hard sell.

I suppose it's a good deal if you don't mind switching off for 90mins and aren't going to get sucked in, but it just shows that we have to be careful when thinking we've won something so marvellous...........

Just be aware.

A_S xx

toniq

just had a call from clc...saying id entered a holiday comp and won,ok i said what does clc stand for? she wouldnt say!
i could choose 1 of 4 destinations, and as a winner im to call a number to claim my prize, i asked straight out is this timeshare? she said sort of? well then i said NO! id rather clean my oven than be dealing with that mad kettle of fish, sad really because when she called i got excited in my head thinking maybe this is genuine, thankfully sensible toni head was on and i didnt fall for it.
anyone else get the call today? she was in a busy call centre maybe that was the giveaway!

Gilla_2

Two of these arrived in my bulk mail box today:

Microsoft Corporation.10 Great Pulteney Street,London, W1F 9NBUnited KingdomRef: BTD/968/07Batch: 409978E
Dear Lucky winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION

The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfullyorganiseda Sweepstakes marking the End of year anniversary, we rolled out over100,000.000.00(One Hundred Million Great Britain Pounds) for the end ofYear Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomlyselected and drawn from a widerange of web hosts which we enjoy theirpatronage.The selection was made through a computer draw system attachingpersonalised email addresses to ticket numbers.Microsoft and AOL arenow the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure thatInternet Explorer remains the most widely used program.Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number008995727495 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/07 and drew the luckynumbers 14-21-25-40-40-47(21)which subsequently won you £500,000.00GBP.The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted inBrockley,London United Kingdom.These Draws are commemorative and assuch special.Please be informed by this winning notification to filefor your claim.Contact Head Winning Claims Department.Mcdonald Rodney.Email: [EMAIL="mcdonald_rodney_fud@live.com+44-7031913114"]mcdonald_rodney_fud@live.com[/email]+44-7031913114

Congratulations from the entire member of the Microsoft Promotion Awardteam.
Sincerely,
Dr. Marylyn Lloyd
Head Customer care Service
Microsoft Promotion Team

You'd think they would at least get someone to check the grammar!

Cadi

I haven't had one of these in ages. It does brighten up my day! Worries me that she cannot spell the name of her own country (Serielone), but I'll give her a break since her father has just "given up the ghost". Class!

From:MISS ELODI WILLIAMS
ADDRESS:03 BP 25687 ABIDJAN 03
AVENUE 23 RUE 33 BARREE COCODY
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
WEST AFRICA.
Tel:+22501336438

Hello dearest one,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration since I can not be able to see you face to face at first.Being the first and the only child of my father, late Mr Mokun Williams from Freetown in Republic of Serielone a country in West Africa I am 18years of age. My father was Diamond and gold merchant in Freetown before his untimely death after his business trip to Europe,to negotiate on a business. A week after he came back from Europe, he was shot with my mother by unknown assassins.

Which my mother died, instantly, but my father died after five days in hospital, on that faithful afternoon. I didn't know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my mother. But before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die. He my father, (may his soul rest in perfect peace) he disclose to me that he deposited the sum of $5.7 million U.S dollars in a Bank in Abidjan the capital of Ivory Coast.That the money was meant for establishing a branch of his business in Abidjan - Ivory Coast. Though, according to my father he deposited the money in his own name and mentioned me in the documents as the next of kin .Before his death he adviced and instructed me to seek for a trust worthy person abroad who will help me invest and manage this money for me until i am capable to handle it.

Now I have succeeded in locating the bank in Abidjan and also confirmed the fund is in there , most honest and confidentiality. Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me transfer out this money out from the bank to your account abroad so that you can be able to manage and invest it in any lucrative business in your country and also help me to move out from here so that I can contiune my education which stopped since my parents death.I am Waiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss how you can assist me on this as my guradian since it is the only condition that the bank said this my inheritance can be release to me at this my present age or i can wait until i am upto 25 years and above.

Thanks for your kind attention and i will appreciate to receive your reply to know if you will be able to handle and manage this my inheritance for me as my guradian.Please i am on my kneelsing begging you to accept standing as my guradian so that this my inheritance be transfer out from here.

Best regards
Miss Elodi Williams