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

competition scams
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...
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...
competition scams
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
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...
competition scams
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...
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...
competition scams
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...
competition scams
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...
competition scams
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 (

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