A bit of both. It's legal, but there's nothing genuine about this outfit. 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.
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest
on 3/march/2012
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.
No, you must be at least 18 years old to enter the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes or claim a prize. Participants under 18 cannot register or receive prizes on their own.
I won prize 350 000 and car in your company. Is it real?
Pillsbury
it is a prize lottery winner company,from london england
DEXTER REID FROM PETERBOROUGH, ENGLAND STUDYING AT THE THOMAS DEACON ACADEMY, QUEENS GARDENS PE1
Niigata Diamond Electric Company from Japan, and The Siam White Cement Company from Thailand
This site offers an unknown college scholarship http://scholarships-for-college.net. Actually it gives out $10K as raffle prize if you register. Raffles are made monthly.
It has more of a human psychology involved rather than any other business situation. But yes, sometimes it does relate to the way business is going ahead. But company has nothing to do with its shares market prize. Share are basically a toy of some people who want to play with fortunes and money. One person makes other a fool. Company has nothing to do with its (share) market prize. If the company closes, the person holding the share will not get market prize for the share. Company will just pay the face value of share. This is what makes people sell the shares they own at whatever prize the share has currently, else they will end up getting just the face value by the company.