Free Postcode Lottery/ Pick my postcode thread

mrstick

Hmmm, all it needs is your postcode and an email address. Your postcode is something that your bank say that they include in emails that they send to you so that you know they are genuine.

Just saying.

custardy

mrstick wrote: »

Hmmm, all it needs is your postcode and an email address. Your postcode is something that your bank say that they include in emails that they send to you so that you know they are genuine.

Just saying.

Your bank might,mine doesn't.

Just saying.

hazyjo

Won on the stackpot a couple of weeks ago Only a tenner, but had £30 bonus so that was added. Nice little extra £40

hazyjo

mrstick wrote: »

Hmmm, all it needs is your postcode and an email address. Your postcode is something that your bank say that they include in emails that they send to you so that you know they are genuine.

Just saying.

No, all it needs is a postcode - doesn't have to be your home postcode. Mine's not my home one.

mrstick

custardy wrote: »

Your bank might,mine doesn't.

Just saying.

Or at least it didn't in the last email you got from your 'bank'

hazyjo

Do you not think a scam of any sort would have been uncovered by now seeing as lots don't use their home postcodes?! If I used say Buckingham Palace postcode (which has won before!), then got an email from (coincidentally) my bank (although there are loads they could wrongly guess!), would I not think hang on a minute, that seems a tad scammy to me...

Even if they did use their real ones and some scam email was sent to obtain bank details or passwords, logins, etc - it would have been very easy to trace it back to FPL.

Really, I think you're completely barking up the wrong tree (or just barking ).

mrstick

hazyjo wrote: »

Do you not think a scam of any sort would have been uncovered by now seeing as lots don't use their home postcodes?! If I used say Buckingham Palace postcode (which has won before!), then got an email from (coincidentally) my bank (although there are loads they could wrongly guess!), would I not think hang on a minute, that seems a tad scammy to me...

Even if they did use their real ones and some scam email was sent to obtain bank details or passwords, logins, etc - it would have been very easy to trace it back to FPL.

Really, I think you're completely barking up the wrong tree (or just barking ).

Yes, obviously. However, I was pointing it out because some people would think that there was no risk in putting their email address and postcode in because everyone has access to that, right?

Anyway, you would obviously ignore all the emails from the banks that weren't yours, but not the one from your bank that also had your postcode in the top saying 'we include your postcode in every email that we send, just so that you know it's us'.

Not everyone would put a postcode in that wasn't theirs because of the terrifying thought that the prize wouldn't be paid out unless they could prove that they lived there.

I also think that it's slightly dubious that it uses a name that is similar to a well established postcode lottery that people will have seen adverts for on the TV.

I'm almost certain that it's not a scam, but I won't be doing it for the following reasons:

a) I don't want to use my own postcode in case I manage to get duped by a phishing email from my bank.
b) I don't want to use someone else's postcode in case I can't claim my winnings.
c) I've saved enough money in my 10 year MSE membership that I don't really care for more of it.

:P

mjm3346

mrstick wrote: »

Yes, obviously. However, I was pointing it out because some people would think that there was no risk in putting their email address and postcode in because everyone has access to that, right?

Anyway, you would obviously ignore all the emails from the banks that weren't yours, but not the one from your bank that also had your postcode in the top saying 'we include your postcode in every email that we send, just so that you know it's us'.

Not everyone would put a postcode in that wasn't theirs because of the terrifying thought that the prize wouldn't be paid out unless they could prove that they lived there.

I also think that it's slightly dubious that it uses a name that is similar to a well established postcode lottery that people will have seen adverts for on the TV.

I'm almost certain that it's not a scam, but I won't be doing it for the following reasons:

a) I don't want to use my own postcode in case I manage to get duped by a phishing email from my bank.
b) I don't want to use someone else's postcode in case I can't claim my winnings.
c) I've saved enough money in my 10 year MSE membership that I don't really care for more of it.

:P

It is a Free Postcode Lottery so what is the most logical name for it? If anything they are the site which loses out if there is any confusion with the Peoples Postcode Lottery and the term "postcode lottery" has been around much longer then either of the two sites.

a) My bank does not include my postcode as an identifier and even if they did the e-mail address I use for banking and other financial transactions is not the one I use for competitions etc (as advised in the MSE comping guide open another e-maill address)
b) If the postcode you are using comes up in one of the draws there is a "Collect" button and payment is made via paypal to the e-mail address associated with your Free Postcode Lottery account or you can (as I did) contact them to have Amazon vouchers instead or even donate your winnings to charity and the Free Postcode Lottery will double the amount.
c) Good for you but then as it is something you would never use and don't appear to know much about there appears little point to your making comment on it.

LeeRits

mrstick wrote: »

a) I don't want to use my own postcode in case I manage to get duped by a phishing email from my bank.

I've been with 3 different banks and they've never included my postcode? It's always name and usually last 4 digits of an account number. Plus the majority of people use a seperate email for comping so their main accounts don't get spammed with hundreds of emails per day.

I've been using FPL since I started comping (around 2.5 years ago) and i've never had a single spam/phising email in my competition email account so it's a pretty pointless 'warning'

hazyjo

mrstick, might I point out you're on a comping forum. Do you or do you not enter comps? Do you fill in your postcode to enter such comps?

I also use a different address for FPL and for comps as I do for my banking, etc.

Don't understand the not wanting to use someone else's postcode. That makes no sense. You do not have to use your own postcode. Fact. You are more likely to win if others who use the same postcode join. BUT you will have to split winnings with them (if they claim too) - except on the stackpot where it's first come first served.

Anyway - I won on it and my best mate won £220. I'm not here to persuade you, I just feel they need defending for when others find this thread. They can decide for themselves.