Competition Scams - Please Post Them Here

cagneyfan

chunkychocky wrote: »

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.

Has anyone ever clicked on these thinking they were a genuine competition?

tinktinktinkerbell

i had one of those the other day, i ignored it

RedCardinal

cagneyfan wrote: »

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!

I always delete when the word "possible" involved you and a few thousand others. You would probably have your name round various companies which would increase marketing e-mails.

lilias

Have you read Susieboo's post in the Discussion thread?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=48425631&postcount=370

miamay666

cagneyfan wrote: »

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!

Yes I have a different email address for comps and to my normal email address

shar555

cagneyfan wrote: »

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!

I clicked on it the first time i got this email thinking i had won something, what they wanted was my mobile number to subscribe to something i then realised i had not won anything and just clicked out.:(

NewLeaf_2

I think this is a scam?

Sharon Garcia [EMAIL="LaurenForann068@yahoo.com"]LaurenForann068@yahoo.com[/EMAIL]
5 Dec (2 days ago)
to me

We would like to tell you that your email "char2win" has won an Ipad from our random twitter email contest last sunday...
Please provide any valid mail and home address on our website we will send the Ipad within 24 hours.Please refer to our site below...
www.theoffersonline.com
Regards
Melissa Jackson
Sent via mobile 5:01 PM

nelie

If it was sent from Yahoo it probably is a scam... You could always contact them through the 'contact us' part on their website (but go through google or something to find the address...as the link could be a virus or bogus site) - don't give your address until you're sure.

MsBooty

Just came in and logged into my emails and there is 32 newsletter emails from a comp I entered last night (cant remember what the comp was but the company is Mindful Money)

These emails came over a space of 8 minutes after 1am!!! :mad:

I don't normally respond to spam but I was so angry, I emailed every single one of them back separately with a message telling them I do not appreciate spam.

Its so funny watching the read receipts coming in for each one being read. And I must add, they are being read by 3 people so far!!!:rotfl:

I also used to use my mobile number when entering comps and then I started getting calls from mobile phone & utility companies and also calls where no one answers, it was annoying. So now I have a free sim in an old phone and use that number for comps.

my advise (as some others have suggested) used a seperate email and (if possible) separate number for comps.

lama16

Hi all

Received a green letter from Readers Digest.

Is it legit or not

what do you think

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