Is Peterborough Prize Register a genuine company?

Answer 1

It exists, but apart from that, I wouldn't call it genuine. What happens is they send you something through the post telling you that you've won a prize from a list, but don't tell you what which one. To claim, they make you ring a premium rate phone line, where an automated voice reads off the list of prizes very slowly. The cheapest prizes come last, so it costs about a tenner for the phone call before the voice tells you that you've won the cheapest possible prize. (The recent version of this scam has the prize being a camera. Older versions had it being a pen.) Then you have to send them more money (they'll ask for five or six pounds for post and packaging) before you even see your prize. The prize itself is always something cheap and nasty that you could have bought for considerably less than what you've just spent on phone calls and postage. The only person getting rich here is the one running the competition.