Competition Scams - Please Post Them Here

jaibaby

https://www.facebook.com/pages/MW3/109738615781594

Another fake

Scorpioangel

Futurecompetitions is the holding site for competitions run by magazines/sites within the Future Publishing group these include Metal Hammer, Total Guitar, Classic Rock, Mollie Makes, PC Format, PC Plus, MacFormat and a lot of others. These comps are posted on MSE

S.

Pinzy wrote: »

I'm new to comping but am avoiding any that look like 'allprizes/allcompetitions.com' just cuz I figure they're basically harvesting sites. Have even started checking the urls now as some comps for named brands - it looks like a legit page then notice that the web address is actually "futurecompetitions" - annoying.

I've noticed quite a few for "Competwition", not sure it's legit as it may well be companies using it as they do with surveymonkey. Any experience good/bad?

Carriecakes

Hmm, they are a bit dodgy! I entered a comp with Gocitygirl, and I won a load of Adessa (?) cooking oils and apron and a few other bits, a nice prize! However when I sent them my address, they said 'Oooh we are sorry (This was Alice Chan who seems to be in control of comps) but we don't know how to get your oils to you without them breaking! (Really???) Also, I made friends with the other winner of these oils, and they had said the same to her, so what they did which I thought was really naughty, was offer me any of the other prizes that were being given away at that time. I thought this was terrible, as It meant people were entering comps they couldn't win, because I was taking the prize without working for it. Instead I said I would simply like a prize that matched the cost of what I had won before. I finally recieved this two months later. They are hard work, and I shall not bother with them again, as Alice Chan was rude and unhelpful. I Hope you get yours sorted xxx

L.stone

Jane at Selected Winner jane@selected-winner.co.uk
3:54 PM (6 hours ago)




to me


Hello *********,

Congratulations!
Your eMail address ************* was exclusively selected.
Well done - you made it!

You have qualified for the QuizChamp quiz and therefore amongst the chosen few entering the final round for a:
£1,000 shopping voucher from Tesco, HMV, Carphone Warehouse or Argos!

Participate now and click here.
************************
Remember you are one of the few selected!

Prizes that are not asked for will reenter the quiz.

Good luck!
Your QuizChamp Team

****This is a subscription service; you will be billed 4 times per week costing £2 per billing (£8 total per week) until you send STOP to 60700 or otherwise terminate in accordance with clause 7.1 of the terms & conditions displayed on this site. Sent texts are charged at standard operator fees. If you enter the received PIN, you will join the QuizChamp quiz subscription service. This gives you a chance of playing the quiz every week. Competitions will run from 1st of January to 30th of June and 1st of July to 31st of December (each a "Competition Period"). The 30th of June and 31st of December of each year shall be the "Prize Date", after which you will be automatically entered into the next competition. The participant that answers the most questions correctly in the shortest amount of time, in any week of a Prize Period, is the winner. The prize (one shopping voucher) will be distributed to the winner by QuizChamp within 28 days of the Prize Date. By signing up for and/or using the service you acknowledge and confirm that you have read and accept the terms & conditions displayed on this site, that you are a resident of the United Kingdom, you are 18 years or older and are the authorized account holder or that you have the consent of the account holder. The weekly trivia game consists of 10 questions. QuizChamp is a product of ORDANDUU GmbH (Oberliederbacher Weg 25, 65843 Sulzbach/Ts.) Helpdesk: 0844 0961116 or info@quizchamp.co.uk. QuizChamp is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of the listed products or retailers. Trademarks, service marks, logos, (including, without limitation, the individual names of products and retailers) are the property of their respective owners. Apple Inc. is not a sponsor of, nor is it affiliated with, ORDANDUU GmbH or this service.

grannybiker

Have ignored the emails from AllAbout Prizes that have appeared in my spam box. but this one made it through to my inbox :eek:
Any company that sends out an email with this many schoolchild errors in has to be rather shoddy IMHO

Hi,


We have tryed to contact you, but so far we have'nt been able to.

Apperently we don't have you correct phone number.

If your still interessted in the Mac computer, please click on the link below and give us your right contackt informations.

- Click here -
http://send.allaboutprizes.com/re?l=ar89kaI32kb3zgI0

Humble apologies if they're genuine, but my searching suggests it's not

P.s. I make it 7 errors of spelling or punctuation :rotfl:

lyniroquai

Can anyone tell me if this is real please?? I received this email and I don't remember entering it? but then again I do enter a lot of competitions on the net....



Good afternoon,

Garnier Body Challenge / our ref: TOA1115

CONGRATULATIONS!

I am delighted to confirm that you are a prizewinner in the above competition.

You have won your choice of annual magazine subscription from the following seven fabulous titles.

Good Housekeeping
Glamour
Red
Cosmopolitan (travel size)
Easy Living
Marie Claire
Elle Magazine


To accept your prize and start your subscription you simply need to reply stating which title you would prefer and your delivery address. Upon receipt of this informaiton we will request your subscription with the publisher.

Please note that typically your first issue will arrive within approximately 6 weeks, with Good Housekeeping taking approximately 8 weeks due to publishers timelines.

For your information I am writing from Cloud Nine Incentives, and we work on behalf of Garnier and their marketing agency making sure that the lucky winners in this promotion receive their prizes.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Cloud Nine Incentives on Tel: 0845 121 4765 or email info@uponcloudnine.co.uk quoting TOA1115.

Once again, many congratulations and we look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Michael Chambers
Cloud Nine Incentives
For and on behalf of Garnier
(t) 0845 121 4765
(e) michaelc@uponcloudnine.co.uk

Barnabysue

Looks real to me, all they're asking for is your address which is available to anyone if they care to look for it. Well done.

http://www.uponcloudnine.co.uk/

lyniroquai

Barnabysue wrote: »

Looks real to me, all they're asking for is your address which is available to anyone if they care to look for it. Well done.

http://www.uponcloudnine.co.uk/

Thanks for the reply :beer:

I will reply to them and give them my address but if they ask for bank account details they will nowt outta me!!

Thank you again

moos_mummy_2

lyniroquai wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if this is real please?? I received this email and I don't remember entering it? but then again I do enter a lot of competitions on the net....



Good afternoon,

Garnier Body Challenge / our ref: TOA1115

CONGRATULATIONS!

I am delighted to confirm that you are a prizewinner in the above competition.

You have won your choice of annual magazine subscription from the following seven fabulous titles.

Good Housekeeping
Glamour
Red
Cosmopolitan (travel size)
Easy Living
Marie Claire
Elle Magazine


To accept your prize and start your subscription you simply need to reply stating which title you would prefer and your delivery address. Upon receipt of this informaiton we will request your subscription with the publisher.

Please note that typically your first issue will arrive within approximately 6 weeks, with Good Housekeeping taking approximately 8 weeks due to publishers timelines.

For your information I am writing from Cloud Nine Incentives, and we work on behalf of Garnier and their marketing agency making sure that the lucky winners in this promotion receive their prizes.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Cloud Nine Incentives on Tel: 0845 121 4765 or email info@uponcloudnine.co.uk quoting TOA1115.

Once again, many congratulations and we look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Michael Chambers
Cloud Nine Incentives
For and on behalf of Garnier
(t) 0845 121 4765
(e) michaelc@uponcloudnine.co.uk

I got the same email this morning it is strange but I did fill in a Garnier survey after trying a sample from them so it is possible. I have replied with my chosen magazine and name and address so will see what happens

fire**fly

just in case anyone finds these comps in thier mags or posted on here please read the info by tea pea dee

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/54778815#Comment_54778815

# 3
Tea Pea Dee
27-07-2012, 9:03 PM

Tea Pea Dee
27-07-2012, 9:03 PM Serious MoneySaving Fan




DO NOT TOUCH THIS COMP. WITH A 100 FOOT BARGEPOLE. DON'T EVEN CONSIDER IT WITH A 200 FOOT ONE

From the Mirror's Penn & Sommerlad Investigates:

EVER wondered why you get so much rubbish in the post? The answer might lie in letters from The Winners Club, Prizes Unlimited and Prize Wordsearch Club.
They are cleverly worded to imply that you are likely to win up to £5,000. Promising "guaranteed winners payout",
one has been sent to 200,000 people but has only 34 prizes.
They come from Churchcastle Ltd, are legal, and because there is no entry fee there is apparently nothing to lose.

But if you respond to Churchcastle, in St Leonards-on-Sea,
it can sell your details to "approved" clients via a mailing list broker called the J Partnership Ltd.
This company is known to Sorted because it handles such "approved" promotions as Sweet & Tasty and the Jewelry Vault, both of which we've exposed as dodgy.
When we visited Churchcastle, director Neil Frogley at his HQ in Putney, west London, he was frank about his business, promised to help readers and even posed for a picture.
However Frogley, 30, was previously director of Carnell Ltd,
a mail-order outfit which has featured in Sorted because of misleading ads and bad service.
Frogley also runs Esmark Ltd which was censured last year by the Advertising Standards Authority for flogging the bogus "Clinic-30 weight loss programme".
Churchcastle is part-owned by Frogley and Guernsey-based Tommy Backer, but the majority shareholding belongs to one Simon Barklem, 35, a director of dating agency giant Dateline and formerly a boss at Golden Standard Ltd, yet another company exposed by Sorted because of its record with junk mail rip offs.

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigat...-on-trash.html


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