Competition Scams - Please Post Them Here

rob200375

SCREAMIN_BABIES wrote: »

i had a phone call today from mutual.com (who ever they are ) saying i had won a holiday through a competition i enter a couple of month ago , they gave me a security code and a free phone number to ring and claim my prize .
me being very sinicle was like yeh what ever , but with it being a free phone number i rang it any way , and apparently i had won a holiday for four to tenirefe to be taken within the next 18 months
(altho sinicle im still listening at this point )
and for ringing straight away i also got bonus vouchers for m&s .
she started to ask me details of my address so she could send out the paper work and confirmation
and im still going along with it up to the point were she said
"all we need is your credit card number as there is a booking fee of £49.99 per person , that is needed straight away "



i just laughed and put the phone down i mean do they really think that im going to give a stranger phone credit card details over the phone just because they say i have won a competition .
thing is someone might fall for it so please everyone
BEWARE

I had similar yesterday, it was a holiday for 4 to tenerife, with a £50 voucher if I signed up on friday in Bristol - I live in Exeter, also they had a £29.50 per person booking fee which I didnt have to pay until Friday.

I wasnt totally sure on it, and I will wait and see what the paperwork says about it all.

boblibarn

i to have just recieved a phone call form the above and told to ring the free phone number 0990086115 but after reading all the posts on here im definatly no tbothering,thanks to all who posted here it really helps when this type of call happens .i was told by the person at the end of the phone that i had won after entering a survey last year

Repo

Got one today from getmeaticket - was asked to ring 0800 008 6115. The rest was the same as above; You've won a holiday for four to Tenerife, Turkey, Costa del Sol or Austria and you only have to pay a £29.50 per person booking fee. £50 worth of store vouchers for M&S, Argos, John Lewis or ???? for turning up at the event in Leeds.

Has anyone actually gone to one of these got the store vouchers and/or took the holiday but resisted the timeshare hard sell crap? I can resist any hard sell so scamming the scammers might be fun :rotfl:

Val_Mathison

Repo wrote: »

Got one today from getmeaticket - was asked to ring 0800 008 6115. The rest was the same as above; You've won a holiday for four to Tenerife, Turkey, Costa del Sol or Austria and you only have to pay a £29.50 per person booking fee. £50 worth of store vouchers for M&S, Argos, John Lewis or ???? for turning up at the event in Leeds.

Has anyone actually gone to one of these got the store vouchers and/or took the holiday but resisted the timeshare hard sell crap? I can resist any hard sell so scamming the scammers might be fun :rotfl:

Yes, I've been on one. We went to Portugal, went along to the compulsory talk and said right away that we didn't need any points because our inlaws had just bought us some for a gift! They explained more would give us a better holiday etc etc but we said no, we had no need. We left after about an hour, so a full weeks holiday for nothing.

Oh, yes and we had gone along to the sales talk and received the £50 Argos voucher beforehand. When we got there we explained we'd been to one before, understood that to get the free holiday we'd have to do it all again in the country we were on holiday at and they said okay, gave us the holiday and the vouchers.

Friends of ours went on a free holiday with another company. When they got to Spain they were asked for a credit card to "scan to keep a record of" and they said they had no cards. This is because a usual clause is that if you don't go to the sales talk they can charge the holiday you are on to your card (read the small print) They can't do this if you don't have a credit card............Anyway my friend "explained" that they had no income as he had just lost his job and therefore how wonderful it was that this "no obligation" holiday had come along. With no job they weren't interested in him.


Interestingly I have just "won" a Club Seasons holiday worth £3750 which was sent to me by recorded delivery. If it costs this much to join and they're giving me that free, I take it I shall just be liable to maintenance fees? Anyone responded to one of these?

mrelephant_2

Hi has anyone heard of the UK Online National Lottery?

I have recieved an email from the above notifying me that i have won £500k even though i dont recall entering such a lottery.

To verify i am the claimee and claim the prize i was asked to give my address details, and phone number, marital status and what my occupation is, please note, i was not asked for any bank details so at this stage i am not worried about having replied to some sort of scam.

I sent the above mentioned details in reply and have now been sent another e-mail confirming that my prize has been endorsed and legalized in the High Court of Justice and that an Irrevocable Guarantee Payment Bond will be forwarded to a courier company who await contact from me to arrange delivery to my doorstep.

The reason i am posting this thread is because i am obviously curious as to if this is a genuine winning or just another one of these scams you hear about these days?

Again i stress, that at no stage so far have i been asked for any bank details and should i be at any stage i would obviously refrain from declaring them on the suspision that it is a scam. So what i would like to know, is has anyone else recieved an identical e-mai recently or in the past and to establish if this is a genuine winnings or as i suspect, a possible scam. Should i go along at this stage with contacting the courier company and see what happens from there, just so long as i dont have to give any bank details?....what would you do?

hjb123

Its a scam!

I get quite a few of these emails and I put them in the trash can straight away!

TwistedPsycho

Yup its definatly a scam.

I won the EuroLotto, National Lottery (three times) and the Spanish EuroLotto last weekend... I think not.

mrelephant_2

SCAM?
Yes i thought as much,,,,,,,,,do you think that by giving my address and marital status/occupation details (not any bank details) i may run the risk of having my online bank details sourced and tampered with?

hjb123

Dont give them any details and you wont run the risk!

djl

yes its a con