Gift cards giveaway is real or it’s fake??? 17 May 2021 at 1:26PM in MoneySaving mums 6 replies 344 views

Valentyna21

Hey mums, 
I see my friends always sharing gift cards giveaways and I’ve never tried it but times are difficult now and I just really want honest answers is this really works? Did anyone ever won anything? 

HampshireH

Sounds like the sort of post designed to collect people's information

sassyblue

No they’re fake. All those holidays, gift bags, gift vouchers etc, all fake! They really annoy me because they’re trading on people's desperation, let’s face it who wouldn't like a free holiday?

anyone can set up a Facebook page and called it 'Thompson Holidays' for instance.  I think some pages now have the blue tick against them, you need to look on the 'About' page to see when the page was set up, and the number of followers. All the big brands will have been set up long ago and have plenty of followers.

Marvel1

Official brands/companies will have a blue tick next to them, if not then I consider a scam - took many gullible people out there though commenting on it "yes please" etc

elsien

If you go onto them you are likely to find that although the ad tells you you’ve got a gift card, once you’ve given them ridiculous amounts of information them you find out its a draw with minuscule chances of winning.
Or that they need your payment details in order to courier the card to you.
Or whatever the latest version is.

If it seems too good to be true, and all that.

My local FB page keeps getting people putting up posts about earning a guaranteed £500 a day. This is generally followed by one comment endorsing them before comments are then switched off. I did click through one once out of curiosity and again it’s surveys or prize draws with no guarantee of getting anything.
They really are best avoided. 

If you want to try to win things using sites which are a bit more legitimate then you could start with the competition forum in here. It’s no longer the best one, but it’ll give you an idea and the people who post are wise to all the scams.

laurimarsan

Valentyna21 said:

Hey mums, 
I see my friends always sharing gift cards giveaways and I’ve never tried it but times are difficult now and I just really want honest answers is this really works? Did anyone ever won anything? 

Hello, 
Some accounts are false, but I won a gift card in instagram in the shop aldajoyeros.com
You must verify if the account is true.

Pollycat

Ah.
Facebook.
Instagram.
No wonder I've not heard of these 'gift cards giveaways'.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...