I RECEIVED THIS ONE TODAY and  it seems suspecious   

 


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Re: Winter QVC® Gift Card Notice
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Simply complete our quick survey and follow our website instructions today.

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That one says "survey" though.  Alot of marketing companies offer entry into drawings for prizes for completing surveys.  It's just a matter of making sure they're a legitimate marketing/research firm.

I haven't had time for any surveys lately!

I too have a seperate email account just for sweeps and stuff and usually can tell immed. by the subj. line. However one nice win did go to my spam and it was from a monthly one time entry from Lucky Breaks (of which I have won 3 - 4 prizes from them) BUT the email came from the actual prize company of Evelyn and Crabtree.  So if I hadnt opened it in the spam I would not have known I won a $100 of their products. I dont think I had to click on any confirmation link so it would have been one of those surprise deliveries by fed ex etc... which my very first prize win just happened to be a surprise delivery of $300 worth of Kinerase products so since that day I was hooked.  Also my brother is a comp geek and I wasn't sure of one of the emails so I forwarded it to him and I think he just entered the url in a search engine and it didnt even show up so he sent me info that it was no good.  So if that sounds correct to any of you computer geeks (not an insult by the way---a definate compliment)... can u let me know. If I enter the URL into a search engine and nothing even comes up then does that mean it is bogus???  Thanks

 :spam:For you guys trying to go through your spam looking for winner notifications:  If you have google email, you can use an option that lets you know whether mail has been sent to just you or to you and a thousand others as well. If the message is just to you (this might be a winner's notification) it will be preceded by <<. If it was mass mailed it will be preceded by >. This helps a lot in knowing what to ignore and what to open up and investigate. Hope this helps someone.

 
That really does vary on a couple of things.  Sometimes sites won't show up in a search result because they have not been crawled by the spiders.  That takes at least a few weeks sometimes if the site isn't linked to by other sites.  Some companies keep their pages out of search engines for various business related reasons. 

Also with gmail in the labs section you can make multiple inboxes.  I set one to catch emails with "Win, Winner, Won" in the subject.

I won a meet with 3 sportswriters at a store opening or sumpin. I remember I do the contest for that particular newspaper and since I could not be in Boston on Tuesday gave the email away to someone on a sports board who was happy to get it. Said it would help his nephews career as a cubsports reporter. I still wonder if it was an everybody gets one or a real win. It did come from the contest department of that newspaper. Just one of those things that make you go hmmm? All you had to do was print the email and it looked like a ticket and everything. again hmmmm?