I won Holiday - WARNING

DuncanMiller · 22 August 2006 at 10:03AM

Hi all,

Yesterday I got a call saying I had won a competition which I had entered earlier in the year. I'm pretty sure it one I would have entered from this site as it was on a wok number which I sometimes use if a tel. contact is require (never use my home line!)

Anyway the prize sounded pretty good - either 7 nights in Goa or Bali. The lady on the phone asked me for an email address or fax to send my details through on how to claim. At the time I probably sounded a bit sceptical on the phone as usually these things are for timeshare trappings in Spain or Tenerife etc... but after I hung up I thought that it was possible it was genuine considering it was a Gos/Bali holiday.

I got the email through this morning and it was from a company called Royal Perspective. Alarms bells started ringing when Step 2 of the "how to book" guide was paying an administration fee of £50. Step three then went on to say "now just arrange your flights and pack your bags". So the prize is basically 7 nights accommodation only and I have to pay £50?

So I visited their website https://www.royalresorts.com.au and it is basically an Indonesian based timeshare company. A further few searches on Google turn up a few scam warnings about this company so you probably end up getting there and having the 4 hour sales pitch etc...

So basically this email is a warning to any other MSE'ers out there who might be getting this phone call. I’m 99% sure this must have been a competition I entered on here but he search feature doesn’t work very well for me so I can't be sure.

The lady said she'll call me back in a couple of days to check everything is ok so I will be promptly telling her where to go when she does!

Duncan
P.S. Has anyone else had this call/heard of this company?