best win email

karimkhimji

Hi, I obtained the following email saying I won a prize:

I’m delighted to inform you that you have won £200 in our crossword puzzle competition as seen in issue 18, 2025 of best magazine. Congratulations!

 

Prizes are claimable through our new Beneficiary Self-Management system with HSBC, a simple process through which you trigger the payment of the prize money into your bank account or PayPal account following the steps set out in this HSBC video.

 

For security, this process involves a two-step authentication process as part of which you will receive a password to your mobile phone number. Therefore, we kindly ask that you respond to this email with your up-to-date mobile number for this purpose, by Tuesday 15 July. After this, please look out for an email from HSBC within 10-14 days (advisory.clientbenefservice@bsm.business.hsbc.com) for the next steps in claiming your prize money. 

 

Once the email from HSBC is received, please follow the instructions to register etc

I replied on the morning of Wednesday 16th July, does it mean I missed the cut off (literally a few hours)

Secondly is this email legit?

Thanks

mjm3346

Up to them if they select another winner (unlikely)
Several posts on here about that being the legit service they use

karimkhimji

Ok thanks just been so busy don't know if its an automated system the fact I replied a few hours past deadline or they manually check the email and then input my number in the system, I do not want to lose this prize!

tscomps

Looks the same as one that I got in March, although mine was a runners up prize of £50. Was the email from Louise.Bulgin@Hearst.co.uk ? It took a few days for them to reply, even though I had replied to them immediately.

karimkhimji

Yeah you got an automated reply or the first you reply you got was from the HSBC payment system asking you to claim prize?

Catonthemoon

“Is it legit”? Did you enter that crossword competition?

karimkhimji

 Catonthemoon said:

“Is it legit”? Did you enter that crossword competition?

yes I did

pebblebeach8

Has she acknowledged your email?  

I received a similar email for winning Best 17, on Thus 10th July which I replied to the same day, I then got another email from Louise Bulgin thanking me for my details and to look out for correspondence from HSBC in next 14 days.  Money was paid in on Monday this week.

karimkhimji

I messaged her and she said look out for HSBC email, how soon after the reply with you with your phone number did you get hsbc email, why is the mobile number needed?

pebblebeach8

karimkhimji said:

I messaged her and she said look out for HSBC email, how soon after the reply with you with your phone number did you get hsbc email, why is the mobile number needed?

Just replied to your message,  hope it helps.  You will find the registration code in the orginal email from Louise