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How to spot the winner email notification?

I've been entering competitions for years and now receive several hundred emails per day on my hotmail account. Does anyone have any tips for spotting the winning notification emails amongst all the other emails? I do a search for 'CONGRAT' but always feel that I might miss something!!

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  • AC55
    AC55 Posts: 4,885 Forumite
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    I usually look out for senders with actual names rather than company names 
  • I would really do a mass unsubscribe of all of the marketing newsletters to reduce the numbers.
    I search on congrats/ congratulations  and winner 
  • mjm3346
    mjm3346 Posts: 47,322 Forumite
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    I've been entering competitions for years and now receive several hundred emails per day on my hotmail account. Does anyone have any tips for spotting the winning notification emails amongst all the other emails? I do a search for 'CONGRAT' but always feel that I might miss something!!
    Assuming you use the e-mail address just for comping I'd start another one, not subscribe to newsletters and the old address can be ditched in a few months when any comps will have closed - switch to a new comping e-mail address whenever too much rubbish starts to accumulate (100 a day is already far too many)
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