Unbelievable amount of entries. Is this a bot?

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hurley21

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I attached a screenshot of the e-mail announcing the winner of the recent Uricide contest. I am trying to fathom how anyone could have obtained that many points? Most referral link entries are 25 entries max. Anyone have an idea how the winner was able to get that high number of entries? That'd be over 1900 people entering off her link. If she has that network, us small fish will never win anything.

Maybe that is reasonable?
 

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Some sweep sites allow members to piggy back referral links. An entrant will use the prior entrants referral link and then post their own link which the next entrant uses. I suspect that's how Sonja got so many entries. Referrals are supposed to be friends or relatives, not total strangers from a sweep site. These people would have entered anyhow, they're not referrals, they're just using the referral link to gain additional entries.
 
entry points makes me think they gave like 100 [or more] points for proof of purchase/actions/rfls instead of 1 for 1
 
Hello everyone - Our contest awards 100 points for every referral signup, so 47,000 points means 470 people were signed up under that person's referral link.
470 is a lot of people, but if someone has followers on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc, 470 signups is obviously achievable....
The contest software we use also has an mechanism that immediately disqualifies anyone who signs up people who's email address bounces. This prevents people from entering a bunch of invalid email addresses simply to get points.
 
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