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Notified of win

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I’ve been entering competitions on and off for a while but never won.
Do you lucky winners generally get notified by telephone? I rarely check my emails in the address I use due to the sheer amount of spam and i’m worried I might have missed contact somewhere along the way
Cheers guys and good luck
Do you lucky winners generally get notified by telephone? I rarely check my emails in the address I use due to the sheer amount of spam and i’m worried I might have missed contact somewhere along the way
Cheers guys and good luck
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You get in the habit of running through the emails each day and deleting the obvious spam; most WEMs are sent from a personal address from the promoting company (though not all) and if you search your emails for keywords like won or winner or congratulations then you should pick up potential prizes you might have missed.
Do make a point of unsubscribing from emails where the competition date has expired; you really need to keep the spam volume down.
I would say that I regularly get about 100-200 spam emails a day, takes about 5-10 minutes to clear them.
2023 £1 a day £54.26/365
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/526089/how-you-are-informed-of-wins/p1
One thing to remember is you can only get notified by whatever contact details you have given so unless you gave a phone number at time of entry you cannot be notified by phone
Unless otherwise stated in the rules, ie a mandatory newsletter signup or newsletter membership, there should be no differentiation between those who choose to sign up for an optional newsletter and those who do not.
I stress 'should'.
The odd prize has just turned up in the post, but yes mostly are notified by email.
You can search your email for certain words, like Congrats, Congratulations, Winner etc. which usually bring up the majority of winning emails. But you may need to manually check you Junk/Spam folder.
Always check what is mandatory for competition entries though, as often the newsletter or other communication isn't required and it is optional.
- First, the consent needs to have been freely given. If you require people to consent to receive marketing as a condition to entering a promotion or accessing a product or opportunity, the ASA is unlikely to accept that it was ‘freely given.
https://www.asa.org.uk/news/using-consumers-data-for-marketing-consent-and-legitimate-interest.htmlIf you are still doing competitions regularly, then try searching as people have mentioned above, then delete the lot and start again with a clean in box