Competition website exposes cheats

The other thing to watch out for when picking which competitions you enter, may be who is entering.

The website lottos.com.au, founded by Andrew Lindner in 2000, allows members to share information about competitions, and also to brag about their prizes. 

One other useful feature is the warnings to members of dubious or fraudulent competitions, before they are sucked in. According to Andrew, cheating is a common experience of people committed to entering competitions.

“Cheating is fairly rife” says Andrew. “One of the most common ways of cheating is people buying a product then sharing receipts. If the terms and conditions say you needed to purchase the product to enter, you can’t go using anyone else’s receipts.”

Andrew says he removes anyone caught doing this from his site.

“People will also do the reverse, which is give receipts to family and friends. This is also not allowed.” 

Andrew reiterates Sherry in saying terms and conditions must be displayed and anyone entering should read them carefully.

“But really, promoters are to blame as they don’t show all the rules.”  

So do people really win using his site?

“Last Thursday someone won  a trip to Switzerland “ 

“In 2004, over 2.69 million and that’s now up to $6.3m in prizes in 2006.”

Andrew says hat he’s so busy running the website, he barely has time to enter competitions himself.

“I usually enter SMS [competitions] because they’re easier.”

More info

http://www.lottos.com.au