is philippines national shoppers choice award a scam?
409880
No because Philippines national is an outstanding shoppers choice and should be rewarded
1164138
It is probably a scam.  DON'T give out any bank information.  DON'T pay anyone anything to get a "prize".  You can contact the people who notified you to investigate further, but BE VERY CAREFUL.  People use things like this to cheat people out of their hard-earned money.
666638
no, never heard of it, think its a scam\n\ndef a scam, found this website with a copy of the email
949428
I received a letter from this group stating that I won an award, I threw it in the trash and started investigating. It is a fraudulent organization. Also, be aware that a letter is being circulated in which a person posing as an artist is looking for someone to open an account in their country in order to accept money orders and send the cash to them in the Netherlands. Don't fall for this ploy. A lady accepted a large sum of money in the form of Money Orders from a person who wanted to move to the U. S. The person, a few days later, wanted her to send two thousand dollars to him, stating that it was an emergency, \nshe sent the money only to find out that the money orders had been stolen and she was out two thousand dollars and had a visit from the authorities. Let's use our smarts in these situations.
223129
No, but lots of them are. Bottom line: If you are told you have to pay to register with them, don't.\n\nLegitimate mystery shopping companies do not charge you to apply.
870615
Yes they are scams. First off, they're not free.\n\nHere is how it works. You have to create an account with them and complete one of their offers and THEN get a bunch of people to complete an offer ($$$) with either Blockbuster or any other store using YOUR reference number. So basically what you have to do is give out your reference number to many people to help you win something. If they're nice, they will do it for you. If they're human beings, they will not complete an offer because why should they pay to help YOU win something?\n\nso.....yea it works....but its not free....and its really hard to win the item.
85259
no, that has scam written all over it. Please remember that there is nosuch thing as a free lunch and if it seems too good to be true, it often is...Please exercise extreme care in dealing with this lady.
413630
I also got an offer.  The offer I received was for a General Manager position.  I didn't really think that it was a scam, because I am qualified for such a position.  I started doing a little research, and found a blue line marketing out of ID. \n\nI also went back to the web-site that gave me the lead.  I tried to start a fake business account just to see how easy it would be.  They wouldn't let me start an account so it must be a real company, but the offer may not be creditable.
442224
It is a scam. Read the link below:
32582
Usually this line will follow with a request for financial or personal information. Like "Congratulations, you just won a brand new PSP! All we require to send it to you is your full name and address. We will also require your social security number and birthdate for verification purposes" or "Congratulations, you have just won the yearly Food Mart draw for 1 million dollars! Every year we keep track of all the customers that come into our store and draw the prize for one lucky individual. All we need is your banking information/credit card number so we can put the money into your account!" These are both really lame examples, but I am sure you get the point. These scams are often ran on the elderly
590698
I tried to get one of these once. But after you give them a whole bunch of info, you find out that in order to get the certificate, you usually have to sign up for some kind of promotion. For that reason, I'm sure they are a scam
410745
I don't think so...they just scammed me into filling all that information and then when I got to the part where they were offering me "extra bonus offers", there was no other option to move on...like no option for a "finish" button or something...\nI usually don't fall for those scams, but I thought maybe for once they wouldn't lie. Oh well, maybe by a prayer it will come in the mail. lol ;)
865070
If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is.\n\nI think it's probably a scam\n\nHave you ever seen an entry box that says "win a free month at a fancy gym"?    Did you know that everyone wins that one?  It's a scam to get people in the door so they can sell an expensive membership.\n\nWhen someone truly wins a prize with no strings attached, they are normally notified by certified mail and they are also supplied with the papers needed to report the win to IRS who will need to be told of winnings.\n\nIf you do show up and it's a scam, all you have lost if your time......but my time if too valuable to waste on scams.
941071
If its one of those letters that promises something if it gets sent to so many people then yes its a scam.  They also usually say its a marketing campaign and give a persons name and phone or e-mail address to verify it.  There all scams.  Sorry
453744
secret shopper websites are a scam.  There is no such thing as a secret shopper there are travel critics and food critics but not secret shoppers.  it's just a scam, they get you to sign up for so many things that they make more money off of you than they give you.
83274
most of them work like this: you have to complete 2 or more of the "offers" they have from other compnaies on their site. you choose between credit cards, free trials of music downloads or classes online to learn spanish etc. each of these "offers" costs shipping and handling for the trial and then after 30 days they charge your card on a regular basis. if you complete enough offers then you have to refer a certain amount of friends who have to completely get through the system for you to get credit for them. Supposedly if you complete enough offers and refer enough friends you will get the free item but it's close to impossible i think. it probably is just a scam to get your e-mail address and get you to sign up for "free" trials that suck you into agreeing to pay for several months yada yada. you know the deal. i've tried it and never had any luck.
1038640
an immediate discount is always better than a rebate.\nsome merchants try to "cheat" by taking their time in giving a rebate...or "forget" to and leaving the responsibility to the individual to make a claim for the rebate.\n\nthat's outright ridiculous and borders on fraud!\n\nthe worse thing is (e.g. in Sg) merchants try to shave their responsibility by claiming certain discounts are not valid.\nsometimes its just untrained staff...or staff with the "old school" mindset.\ndiscounts are discounts. why bother to limit them.\n\nSg's retail/service industry sucks!