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Stolen Twitter account

BUZZ1
BUZZ1 Posts: 175 Forumite
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Just had notice that someone is using my name and profile picture to impersonate. They have claimed an Amazon gift card which I won yesterday. Please be aware and watch out.

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  • broughton
    broughton Posts: 654 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper
    How do you prevent that?
    I hope you can get your prize somehow.
  • nelie
    nelie Posts: 1,568 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    But if they tagged you in the competition, they shouldn't be able to claim the prize as you would have got the notification. I would send a message to the company to explain.

    Expecially if they have tagged your @ not just using your name.
    December Wins: £300 worth of board games, £500 Tesco Vouchers Best Win in 2023: £500 Tesco Vouchers
  • BUZZ1
    BUZZ1 Posts: 175 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    I approached the company by their web contact page and have just received this......I’m really fed up!
    Hi

    Thanks for the email.

    We noted that the accounts have been suspended, but unfortunately we have no
    way of telling which account is genuine and which is not.
    We have therefore decided to offer the prize to another person.
    I'm sorry that this may come as a disappointment to you, but we offered the competition in good faith and do not wish to be caught up in any potential account scam activity.
  • ikkle87
    ikkle87 Posts: 8,449 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    BUZZ1 wrote: »
    I approached the company by their web contact page and have just received this......I’m really fed up!
    Hi

    Thanks for the email.

    We noted that the accounts have been suspended, but unfortunately we have no
    way of telling which account is genuine and which is not.
    We have therefore decided to offer the prize to another person.
    I'm sorry that this may come as a disappointment to you, but we offered the competition in good faith and do not wish to be caught up in any potential account scam activity.


    what comp was it?
    You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

    xx Mama to a gorgeous Cranio Baby xx
  • wdywuk
    wdywuk Posts: 5,392 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    How much was the amazon voucher for the guy to go out of his way to create the account.
  • ikkle87
    ikkle87 Posts: 8,449 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    wdywuk wrote: »
    How much was the amazon voucher for the guy to go out of his way to create the account.


    i've seen people do it for as little as £10 before, tbh it's not a difficult scam to do and is one of the reasons why i wish companies would DM people as well as publicly announce them.



    for example



    ikkle87 ikkIe87 would both look the same as a username but one has a lower case L and one has a capital I
    You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

    xx Mama to a gorgeous Cranio Baby xx
  • wdywuk
    wdywuk Posts: 5,392 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    thanks i thought the Elon Musk scam for bitcoin was very good and i would have fallen for it.
  • EnglishWelshie
    EnglishWelshie Posts: 5,183 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    BUZZ1 wrote: »
    I approached the company by their web contact page and have just received this......I’m really fed up!
    Hi

    Thanks for the email.

    We noted that the accounts have been suspended, but unfortunately we have no
    way of telling which account is genuine and which is not.
    We have therefore decided to offer the prize to another person.
    I'm sorry that this may come as a disappointment to you, but we offered the competition in good faith and do not wish to be caught up in any potential account scam activity.

    I would be tweeting them back to complain as it isn't your fault that someone has created an account identical to you to claim your prize and seems so unfair them offering the prize to someone else.
    Are they even allowed to give it to someone else? I don't think they are.
    Let us know if you tweet them and we can comment and retweet your tweet.
  • mjm3346
    mjm3346 Posts: 47,322 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    EnglishWelshie wrote: »
    I would be tweeting them back to complain as it isn't your fault that someone has created an account identical to you to claim your prize and seems so unfair them offering the prize to someone else.
    Are they even allowed to give it to someone else? I don't think they are.
    Let us know if you tweet them and we can comment and retweet your tweet.

    I assumed from post #4 that the posters account is suspended
    We noted that the accounts have been suspended, but unfortunately we have no way of telling which account is genuine and which is not.

    otherwise if it was competition with a retweet/tweet with # etc then all the company have to do is go to the winning entry, click on the profile, that will take them to the profile of the correct person and they can deal with from there by DM etc.
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