Competition Scams - Please Post Them Here

weeowens

_knox_ wrote: »

Does anyone know if the admiral newsletter advertising a competition to win a free ipad2 is a scam? It takes you to sureymonkey.com which seems a bit suspicious to me?

This the one..........https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3515809

Seems ok.Lots of firms,including Sainsburys post comps via Surveymonkey.I'm not sure why but I'd not worry.

I've checked a few other links on the admiral site & they all check ok on here..............http://whois.domaintools.com/admiral.com

_knox_

Ok, its probably me just being overly cautious, it just asks for quite a lot of personal info so thought I would see what other people thought about it, I hadn't seen that other thread.

Cheers for the quick reply!

Jaycee21

Just thought i'd post this little beauty for everyone to see, I'm presuming its spam:D

Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:58 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Your Email Address won you

Your Email Address won you LG OPTIMUS PAD PHONE & $650.000 Demand Bank
Draft For claims send us Email followed by details from you:-

YOUR NAME:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
MOBILE#:
COUNTRY:
MARITAL STATUS:
OCCUPATION:
AGE:
SEX:
EMAIL:
YOUR CLAIM ID #:LG367/0092/GW

DANISH XXXXXXXXX
Tel: XXXXXXX
Email: feedback@llgmobileteam.com
LG PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCER.

Done the usual checks, but its not looking good for me to win the prize :cool:
Oh well back to the drawing board . HEHE

Rewell_People

I have been suspicious of my fathers free gifts and peculiar food for some time but have not been able to persuade him to tell me where it is all coming from - other than the fact he says he is not sending money to scammers - Huh - after he had a fall this week I was able to clear out some of his junk mail and found some addressed envelopes ready to go now I can see he is spending a fortune on this food and being promised prizes . He is 88 and in all other respects very sensible if stubborn, he reads a broad sheet cover to cover every day but he is being conned. . I can see it is him I am going to have to stop as clearly this scam is within the law or someone would have stopped it by now. . He has also picked up some of the other scams as well such as Vitamail - and in checking we have enough hand cream to keep an elephants skin soft.
Anyone had any success in stopping this stuff

cagneyfan

Hi,
could anyone tell me if this is a scam? I got this email from apparantly '1000-vouchers.co.uk' - but since I've had loads of scams recently I'm scared to click on it! Do others get loads of scams too from entering competitions?

anyway, this is what I got:



Hello (my name),


Congratulations! You are our possible winner!

We are happy to announce that you are one of our lucky participants selected to win
two shopping vouchers (Argos, Amazon, TOPSHOP, H&M) of a value of £1.000 each:

1. Jessica Millers
2. Mandy
3. Luke Watkin

You could be our possible winner of 2x £1.000 shopping vouchers!

chunkychocky

Yes SCAM! Delete.

BlueBella

Yes scam - whenever you see 'You could be a possible winner...' it is a SCAM!

cagneyfan

chunkychocky wrote: »

Yes SCAM! Delete.

Thank you, just out of interest what would happen if I clicked on it. I'm assuming I would get a load of junk emails which I've recently got - am I right, or would it leave a virus on the computer. As it happens I use the library computers so I don't know if they would be able to block any viruses - you can tell I'm not that 'informed' about cyber space!

chunkychocky

I really don't know what would happen, but I know lots of us here have received the same email recently. I imagine it would just confirm to them that it is a genuine email address and then you'd be inundated, but it could well be something even more dodgy.

cagneyfan

Thanks again, could I ask what others do when entering competitions. Do you have a seperate email address - which I think I should have done!