E: 09/02 Win,50” LG Smart TV +new Sky+HD box(Sky customers)

Biker*Chick

MaineBlue wrote: »

I'm a Sky customer and have received no such email (yet)

I find it surprising (to say the least) that Sky would ask a small company with pretty crap assets/liabilities http://companycheck.co.uk/company/06720641/WXXT-LIMITED/company-summary to run a competition for them.

I fear this is only going to lead to phone calls with some company asking you to take out insurance on your Sky equipment

You should receive an email as a Sky customer eventually - in the email it has copious links to the main Sky website, plus to all other areas (policies, FB/Twitter etc) which you wouldn't get in a scam email. Thank you for raising the issue maineblue :A, as it is good to be wary of mailings that seem too good to be true, but I can find no reason at all to doubt the authenticity of this comp.


Oh, I already get calls from Sky trying to get me to take insurance out on their equipment, so really I have nothing to lose :rotfl: :rotfl:

JessicAhh

Has anyone who isn't a Sky customer received this? As it's Sky customers only, then my suspicions would be raised, if non-Sky customers had received this.

The fact that it addresses me by my first name, and has the note at the bottom "This was sent to [jessicawshoscombe's email address]", makes me think it is possibly genuine.

Annoyed with myself for entering details before checking it out though. School girl error :wall:

feefeegabor

I'm a Sky customer and have just received this email. It also addresses me personally by name and is from sky@skymail.sky.com. I'm pretty sure it's genuine.

JessicAhh

Incidentally, for those that are entering, as the postcode / account no box seems optional, I would avoid putting anything in it, just in case...

JessicAhh

Done a bit more digging...

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4858688 is a thread from 3rd Jan, which was a Twitter comp based on https://www.sky-competitions.com

This Tweet from earlier today on the official @skyhd account links to a set of Ts and Cs for the Twitter comp, and those are on the sky-competitions.com domain.
Sky TV BB & Talk ‏@skyhd 4h
Tell us where you enjoy #SkyGo in your home & you could win a tablet. @Rachaelsit is #teambedwithbump. Details & T&Cs http://www.sky-competitions.com/skygo/?DCMP=snt-Twitter-na-T&CS-DEC-FEB-SGO

Idol_Eyes

I'm a Sky customer and I've received the email, it went to my email address that is registered with Sky and not the one I use for comping. My email was also addressed to me by name

MaineBlue

feefeegabor wrote: »

I'm a Sky customer and have just received this email. It also addresses me personally by name and is from [EMAIL="sky@skymail.sky.com"]sky@skymail.sky.com[/EMAIL]. I'm pretty sure it's genuine.

Thanks for that. I'm afraid my suspicions are confirmed and it is indeed fake and a scam
See here:- https://www.facebook.com/sky/posts/215364171816345
Question posted on Sky facebook page "I've received an email about the FA Cup from "sky@skymail.sky.com" to an address not registered on my sky profile. Is this a valid sky email and am I ok to reply asking to be removed from the mailing list?"
Sky response "@Darren We don't recognise this email address.pb"

Comping_King

Fair play, that dude has gone to a lot of effort - it certainly looks the part!

jeddentad

MaineBlue wrote: »

Thanks for that. I'm afraid my suspicions are confirmed and it is indeed fake and a scam
See here:- https://www.facebook.com/sky/posts/215364171816345
Question posted on Sky facebook page "I've received an email about the FA Cup from "sky@skymail.sky.com" to an address not registered on my sky profile. Is this a valid sky email and am I ok to reply asking to be removed from the mailing list?"
Sky response "@Darren We don't recognise this email address.pb"

Thing is, I've looked at the full original email (gmail -> show original)

This email has my sky ID embedded in it. My sky ID is unique. I quite literally use it nowhere but sky.

If it's spam, there's something afoot

JessicAhh

But why are Sky advertising a competition based on that same web domain as this fake one, on their official Twitter feed? Confusing.