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Competition Scams
Comping and win a house competitions sadly aren't perfect and does attract it's fair share of cheating and scams. The best way to beat the scammers is let everyone know how they work and how to avoid them. In this section we highlight various issues and also share rulings from ASA (Advertising Standards Agency) when competitions are involved.
See Also: Pay To Enter Prize Draws, Facebook Comps, Win A House, Automated Entries
pay to enter sites
Back in February 2024 we wrote a blog asking Can Pay To Enter Prize Draws Be...
comping tips
Loquax has been listed on popular review site Trustpilot for numerous years. Despite this we've never sought reviews from users or publicised that we were there. It's not...
twitter comping
Yesterday (15th June 2023) we received a message from a Loquax user who felt that they'd been potentially "scammed" because of a prize draw that they'd visited via a...
facebook comping
Prize draws on social media are incredibly popular simply because they're easy to set up and often easy to run. There's no need for competition landing pages, databases...
Being a comper isn't an easy pastime. On one hand you might be investing considerable time and effort liking/sharing and filling in forms whilst on the other you may be...
win a house competitions
At the end of May a new win a house competition was launched on a raffle site called Cathedral Competitions. The prize on offer is a £500,000 home in a a sought after village in Kent and the site...
Compers know fully well that comping via social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook can be a problem, especially when it comes to fake accounts. Scammers latch on to a brand name, create a...
facebook comping
After entering 100s of competitions on Facebook and Instagram you login one afternoon to discover a message in your DMs. "You are a winner"! In your excitement you quickly fire off the details...
win a house competitions
Whilst 2020 has been a strange year for most, in the win a house competition world it's been a pretty decent year. Over 80 properties have been offered as prizes and 15 of them have resulted in...
be on tv
When we first started this blog way back in 2007 (yes 2007) one of the hot topics of the time was phone-in competitions. Ofcom were going to investigate the use of premium rate services, GMTV were...
win a house competitions
Win A House raffles have taken another twist with the news that Millionaire Mansion has closed early. This competition was originally earmarked to close in November 2018. However the promoters...
winners
Zavvi.co.uk have been warned by Advertising Standards following a recent prize draw where the winner lost the prize by responding too late to their winning email. Between the 19th September and...
win a house competitions
Back in September 2017 the website Win The House Of Your Dreams joined the throng of home competitions online. The prize, Reve House, is located on the banks of The River Thames at Caversham...
win a house competitions
Back in March, Shamus Fitzsimons closed their Win Your Dream Home competition. When we wrote our review of this competition we noted that the promoter didn't indicate the values of expenses and...
win a house competitions
Since 'Win A Country House' launched in February 2017, around 30 other home competitions have opened and concluded. A further 20 are ongoing! Despite the number of...
win a house competitions
Despite just one property being won in the recent spate of win a home competitions, these kind of contests continue to make the news. There are new competitions, frustrations with ones that have...
Every now and then we get a lot of visitors to Loquax looking for "The Prize Directory". Now we've used the phrase since we started 18 years ago to describe the page where you can search
facebook comping
Facebook has played a massive role in changing how competitions work online. However, one thing they've not been good at it stopping fake competitions manifesting themselves across the network...
compers in the news
We thought it was high time to do another blog update. There are a few things that we've spotted in and around the comping world and Loquax that deserve a mention, but perhaps don't warrant a full...
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) are investigating the current Walkers prize promotion. According to reports in The Grocer complaints have been made by entrants that some letters are...
running competitions
A couple of years back it's safe to say that one aspect of comping really riled us - automated competition entry services. We pretty much led the way in making compers and promoters aware of this...
comping tips
Last week an article appeared on Reddit titled "The Daily Telegraph rig their competitions to be won by friends/contributors". In the article the author, telegraphpolygraph, outlined how they...
creative competitions
Although I tend not to enter that many competitions these days I do look out for photo comps (especially if they don't require votes). However, photo competitions attract a fair bit of cheating...
facebook comping
Despite the fact that Facebook states that users are only allowed one account it's a well known fact in comping circles that some people have a couple. One for personal and private use and one to...
People who tend to enter a lot of competitions are often regarded as a "professional comper" - a media term that we think isn't really appropriate to describe someone who just enjoys trying to win...
comping tips
We stumbled on an interesting article yesterday by Sian Meades entitled The rise of the ‘extreme comper’. Sian is a blog editor and in her article she comments on how one winner received...
Last week our @loquax twitter account was lucky enough to win some Krispy Kreme donuts. It's possibly only the second time it's won - the first was from O2 for Echo and The Bunnymen Tickets and...
This weekend a competition was posted on the forums. By sending a text message with the code HOTPOINT you could instantly win 1 of 100 Hotpoint Eco Friendly Washing Machines. The promotion, from...
automated entries
If you run an online competition then hopefully you're keeping an eye out for automated competition entry services. We've already told you, thanks to Chocolate Reviews, about email accounts to...
win a car
It's been a while since we dipped a toe into the murky waters of Facebook voting competitions but we thought it was high time to revisit them and see how things are fairing. First a brief recap...
Yesterday we reported that there the Next Baby Boutique Model Competition was well on course for
Flip Video UK have decided to suspend voting in their Share Your Summer with Flip competition. The competition, which was due to conclude today, has been shrouded in controversy due to concerns...
Competitions are in the press again thanks to an interesting article in The Telegraph called Win Big From Competitions. The article tries to put across a message that you can do well from doing...
We received an error notification today from ceedsie saying that the Mitsubishi competition to win a...
Every once in a while we have a look at how visitors are making their way to Loquax and two intriguing search statements crop up. The first one is "does anyone win anything using Loquax?" and the...
Could the end of the Unclaimed Prize Register and
running competitions
The Institute of Sales Promotion (ISP) have finally started warning promoters about cheating in online competitions. They have issued advice to companies that run competitions to tighten up their...
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) have upheld a complaint made about prize promotions from Premier Data Logistics Ltd and Club La Costa - the people behind the 2minute Draw. The ruling...
winners
This week compers have been receiving letters from a brand new localised Prize...
running competitions
So you spend hour after hour entering competitions, visiting sites and finding answers - how would you feel then if the prize was won by someone who'd never even visited the site and didn't even...
be on tv
ITV are the latest broadcaster to announce that they've been running competitions where entrants have had no chance of winning. The shows affected are Soapstar Superstar 2007; Ant and Dec’s...
Breakfast TV broadcaster GMTV have been fined £2million by Ofcom over the competition phone-in scandal which allowed people to enter competitions via premium rate phone lines, yet they had no...
One of the drawbacks to comping is that there is always someone out there ready to try and cash in on people's vulnerability and desire to win. One such company is the Unclaimed Prize Register and...
GMTV have taken to steps to regain public confidence in their company and competitions by announcing a series of measures to compensate entrants to their competitions (
Have you received anything from The Winners Club? If yes and you've been tempted to take up their offer of "your prize" then a quick read of a recent 'Investigates' article from
Following the revelations about the You Say, We Pay competition that featured on Channel 4's Richard and Judy program, ICTSTIS, the regulatory body for premium rate telecommunications, has imposed...
Ofcom have announced that they are to investigate "the use of premium rate telecoms...
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