Competitions Discussion Thread

horfsby1984

I heard that the ball is not allowed to be in the exact position (don't quote). It may have change it was on one of those behind the scenes net things

alyssa_mae

I've just recieved this in an email. I know it's rubbish but what's to gain by sending these out?



FROM THE DESK OF THE MICROSOFT COORDINATOR {MICROSOFT
GLOBAL E-MAIL LOTTERY}INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS.FILE REF:HL/5564/06/07/MICS
BATCH: MC11/834/5PDH /EU


OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION:

DEAR WINNER:

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a
suprise but please find time to read it carefully as we
congratulate you over your success in the following
official publication of results of the E-mail electronic
online Sweepstakes organized by Microsoft,in conjunction
with the foundation for the promotion of software
products,(F.P.S.)held on the 11th of January.2007,in
Amsterdam The Netherlands.

Wherein your electrononic email address emerged as one of
the online winning emails in the 2nd category and
therefore attracted a cash award of 800,000.00Euros(Eight
hundred thousand Euros only).

Our winners are arranged into four categories with
different winning prizes accordingly in each category.They
are arranged in this format below:

CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES
1st. 7 1,000,000:00euros each
2nd. 21 800,000:00euros each
3rd. 38 470,000:00euros each
4th. 52 170,000:00euros each


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(4) The file reference numbers: HL/5564/06/07/MICS
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sorry if its in the wrong place please feel free to move.

catz747

Maybe the links are viruses or something, or maybe if you click the links they know you are a numpty to be targeted again for some scam or other - just guessing

kit34

i know after being on here a few weeks that some of the answers to the puzzle .com site get posted but am wondering where to get the other answers from to the drop down mags that dont get listed , i was wondering if we could make a little group up to buy say one magazine each and do the comps and post for all if that is not already happening , it may already be somewhere but i havent found it , you know the ones i mean chat puzzles arrowwords etc , can you let me know if this is a good idea and if it is maybe one of the more experienced compers/ forum people would like to set it up , i would gladly buy a mag and do it ever week but i think it needs to be done so we are not all buying the same ones , well what do you think ????:o

Strepsy

I'd be interested in that as I do buy the odd one now and then, and like you say I never know which to buy. There doesn't seem much point in buying ones others' have posted answers to already.

Good idea kit

kit34

thank god for a reply i thought id done something wrong by posting it as no one had answered me lol , do you think you could push the idea in the relevant section as i havent a clue were things like this are supposed to go , please

Strepsy

I think we just wait for more replies on here and then if there's a few more peeps interested then we can think about how to organise it. If it gets really popular a mod might make it sticky for us.

kit34

ok thanks for that strepsy

aggie

I'd be up for this. I think its a really good idea.

zoepop47

Great idea i'll join with that one :beer: