Making the Most of the Internet: I've Won an Audi A3

Monday, October 01, 2007

I've Won an Audi A3

Pull the other one.

It's fraud.

One out of five.

Note that one giveawy it's spam is that they spell James as in my e-mail address with a small letter. They may actually be a real company, so I think this one is going to the Information Commissioner.

Dear james,

Congratulations!
Our random generator has JUST selected your email address from 200.000
newsletter recipients as possible winner of an Audi A3!!!
In the event of having been selected please click here:
http://planet49.co.uk/cgi-bin/wingame.pl?partner_pk=18&wingame_pk=32&;sub_id=NL_070830_valuebrand

SELECTED EMAIL RECIPIENTS ALSO RECEIVE:
1. further additional prizes (Camcorder, Sony PSP)
2. even a chance of winning 2 Audis
Participation is FREE and only takes 1 minute!
http://planet49.co.uk/cgi-bin/wingame.pl?partner_pk=18&w< SPAN>ingame_pk=32&sub_id=NL_070830_valuebrand

Your Audi A3 Winner Team

Labels: fraud

72 Comments:

Anonymous said...: I got that message and am worried that it may indeed be scam.

However, I "only" gave address and date of birth data.... What can be done against me with that ? They sent me a second email (planet49) asking for more information, which i would never provide.

The email came from Lycos offer (partners@info.lycos.co.uk) and I trusted them because it was sending regular emails with possibility to unsubscribe.
The website planet49 were you are directed by the link seems to be genuine.
Is that a very clever plot kind of scam or are we just being too suspiciouskpvew ?; Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:56:00 am
James Miller said...: It may be genuine but in my opinion it's highly dodgy. If you sign up, I suspecrt you'll get masses of spam from all and sundry.; Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:04:00 pm
Anonymous said...: PLANET49 GmbH is a real company headquarted in Germany and NOT a scam. All the prises that we offer are real and will be given away at the end of every year. We have lawyers in the UK that have checked and continue to monitor all that we do. We do NOT just offer things to collect personal data and not deliver on our promises.

We do not ask for any money, but we do have partners that will contact the people in our database with offers. Anyone who wishes to unsubscribe can do this easily through the unsubscribe buttons at the end of every email we send.

I ask you to please stop posting incorrect messages about our company when you have obviously done nothing to collect facts.

Thank you, William (PLANET49); Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:27:00 am
James Miller said...: I never signed up for this lot. It may be legal, but to me it's highly dodgy and the sort of thing not to be associated with.

It's all going to the Information Commissioner.; Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:44:00 am
James Miller said...: If they were a hundred percent kosher company, then William would have logged in or send me a personal e-mail.

Even better he could have sent me a letter.

But would that have too much information on it?; Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:50:00 am
Anonymous said...: People like Planet49 just need a stick plunged into their asses :); Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:02:00 am
Anonymous said...: Yes, it's fraud alright, I just got the offer on myspace (shame on you!) - they are included on the fraud list of
http://www.data-wales.co.uk/nigerian_lottery.htm

Tim; Monday, February 04, 2008 5:51:00 pm
Anonymous said...: OK, I'm going to expose my naivete here. Recently, I came across a link to this website on Eurosport announcing that i had qualified for a draw. However, I was a bit wary, so I only filled the online form partially. When I clicked submit, the form did not go through, and I was asked to fill in the outstanding details.

Here's my question: would they still have got the info I filled in? Or, since the page was not saved (I guess), have I been spared a deluge of spam (or worse). Some of what I filled may have been true. I have been obsessing over this for a few days.; Monday, February 11, 2008 3:56:00 pm
Anonymous said...: I just got this one, and its from a company whom I KNOW I have unsubscribed from - and fairly sure I never signed up to in the first place.

This stuff gets treated in the normal way - loud ridicule in the vicinity of my office followed by the DELETE key.; Friday, March 07, 2008 11:35:00 am
Anonymous said...: I got this message in my inbox:
Prize form for selected Internet user!

Title: Mr. Miss Mrs. Ms.
First Name:
Surname:
E-mail:

Should I win, please inform me immediately – I have read and accept the Conditions of Participation and Data Protection Notice. I agree to Planet49 contacting me via email, phone, SMS or mail to inform me if I win, and also allow Planet49 and their partners and sponsors to send me interesting offers using the same contacting methods.

I think it is a big fraud.; Saturday, March 29, 2008 4:05:00 pm
Anonymous said...: You don`t get something for nothing!!
I don`t believe in `random selection of prizes` from a company I have never heard of or dealt with.
Today, I got an e-mail with the identical message & same `prize` but from customerservices@warmpit.com!
The address at the end is somewhere in Texas USA (not Germany); Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:31:00 pm
Anonymous said...: Just clicked on IDMDb and a pop-up announced I am the 999,999 visitor (to what? IMDb?) and have won, or then again perhaps not, won an Audi A3.

The "prize" is from Planet49. Yeah. Sure. in Planet49's T&Cs are the following blatant get-outs:

1) You can't ever sue us for anything, so piss off.

2) If we have a problem with our computer at any time (like, er, we forget to turn it on) then the Prize Draw could be affected and so no "prizes" at all will be "awarded".

Planet49 is an email / phone number data harvester, a not-so subtle list broker for God knows how many "partners" and other third parties.

The opening splash screen is a scam (no-one has actually won anything) and the initial "winner registration" a further scam in that it's desitgned to lull you into thinking that's the *only* information Planet49 is after.

Of course it's not. Information as minimal as that is of no commercial value to anyone -- and definitely not worthy of "awarding" an Audi A3.

So what Planet49 then does is pretend the initial "registration" failed and more details are needed -- especially, your home telephone number.

ANYONE falling for a scam of this nature -- and yes, that's all it is: a sustained, deliberate, and systematic scam -- is a moron.

As to the sleazebag who posted here on behalf of Planet49, hey mate, you're the biggest moron of 'em all.; Friday, April 04, 2008 12:07:00 pm
Anonymous said...: My wife has also just received a "notification" and her prizes. I suspect that Palnet49 is buying email addresses for next to nothing from unscrupulous parties and then mailing out rubbish!!! to me it is just more spam mail and an attempt to increase the level of it we receive. If they mail 1 Million people and 100 reply it is a win!!!
Regardless this is just a scam!!!; Friday, May 09, 2008 11:41:00 am
Anonymous said...: blatantly a SCAM, i googled it and it said planet49 was a company who has the biggest databases and are selling peoples details to companies in the UK, it said they have around 9 million 'customers' that grows by a thousand each day!
Unbeleivable, its obvious they are getting peoples information 'under false pretenses' legally and making a HUGE amount of money from it!
google it, the company who distributed peoples info on behalf of planet49 is wyvern co.or something like that.. DONT FALL FOR IT!!!!!; Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:38:00 pm
Anonymous said...: plus planet49 claims to be one of the best online 'marketing' companies in europe, what a JOKE!!!!
ie. they are supplying other companies with a HUGE consumer market base for ££££; Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:42:00 pm
Anonymous said...: Its a data harvester. Just fill in any old rubbish so they spend more time data cleansing than tricking the gullible into thinking they've actually won something.
Actually forcing you to accept the fact that they can use your information for direct marketing purposes is also illegal in the uk, as you must be able to opt-in, not be forced to opt-in.; Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:14:00 pm
Anonymous said...: All mails you get from Planet49 and any other UK marketing company by law have to be opted in by you.

I don't work for Planet49 but know how the industry works.

You may have opted into Planet49 on another site for example to be in with the chance of winning an Audi A3.

You can request this information from Planet49 who I'm sure will be happy to supply you.

If you do not wish to be contacted by them simply unsubscribe and give them a reasonable amount of time to process this request (say a 10 days). If you continue to get e-mails from them just let them know!

All companies in the data world need to be compliant with the DMA, if you have reason to believe they are not and bending any rules let the company know and contact the DMA if you don't get a satisfactory answer.

These companies sell consumer data purely on an opt-in basis - that is how they can purchase these vehicles, prizes etc. to give away.

Who would just give there data away in return for nothing ?? How do you think these companies can give £1,000's of pounds of prizes away every year ?? Also all of these sites have winner pages - do you think these people are complaining?

Finally just make it your rule that you won't opt into anything on any these sites and bail if someone tries to force opt you in - simple.

Then you won't get any e-mails apart form the company advertising their services to you!

Hope this helps. All the best.; Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:12:00 pm
Anonymous said...: http://anti-email-spams.blogspot.com/; Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:19:00 pm
Anonymous said...: Now also in holland....

http://www.planet49.nl/cgi-bin/wingame.pl?source_pk=10&partner_pk=9&wingame_pk=46

Trying to find the green so hard.

http://www.data-wales.co.uk/nigerian_lottery.htm; Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:32:00 pm
Anonymous said...: I am from holland. I got this flashy message on photobucket as I was surfing:
"This is not a joke! Congratulations You've selected and can possibly win an Aud A3." (in dutch)
Of course I googled the site first and so I came here. Thank you all, cause now I know.. its all crap!

Nothing is for free and winning a car for nothing is too good to be true!

Thanks; Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:48:00 pm
Anonymous said...: For the person who said that he has given date of birth and the address, for his information- a lot of things can be done wih that information including opening an account in a bank in his name. A lot of personal information can be found using that. So refrain from giving personal information just like that.At the end of the day- nothing comes free.; Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:06:00 pm
Anonymous said...: Planet49, yes they are a real company, squirreled away in Germany and free to do what they want on the Internet and avoid UK law. I submitted bogus details to them a few weeks back with an email address of planet49@??????? and have started receiving unsolicited mail from other companies such as MRI Overseas Properties. They have no association with Planet49 so clearly Planet49 are selling email addresses to others. Of course, Planet49 will say they are a partner but then you could say anyone was your partner as they don't actually tell you who their partners are.; Friday, August 01, 2008 2:30:00 pm
Anonymous said...: This is a definite scam. You will be bombarded with junk emails and have no chance of winning. This company is very dodgy and have been investigated several times. Do not be fooled into giving any info.; Tuesday, August 05, 2008 7:36:00 pm
Anonymous said...: You don't get something for nothing in this world. What is the harm of setting up an e-mail address that is just for the purpose of collecting SPAM.

I know somebody who actually won in a competition that was launched by Planet49. So that part is definitely not a scam.; Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:49:00 pm
Anonymous said...: I think you guys need to learn a little about direct marketing policy.

It is the same if you have ever ordered anything from a mail order catalogue. Automatically you suddenly receive several other mail order catalogues.

READ THE SMALL PRINT.; Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:56:00 am
Anonymous said...: logan@bringonthesun.net

Sent me the same thing, if it is not a scam why use diffrent email addresses all the time. Also they should have a valid contact address within the UK / phone number. None of this is on the email so haven't even allowed the images to be downloaded. Using the ripe database and looking at the sorce code of the email it was sent from Netherlands.; Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:06:00 pm
Anonymous said...: 100% scam dont bother giving in you're personal details.; Sunday, August 31, 2008 12:15:00 am
Anonymous said...: They have (Planet49) deducted 10Euro from my account, even they were not authorize to be deducted from my account. I have filed the case for refund and block them; Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:54:00 pm
Anonymous said...: Anonymous said...
I have Had the flashing while I was surfing the net I am member of a lot of surveys for Market Research so I had plant49 sending me u have won a Audi A3 but I thought it was from one of the Market Research Companys and I give me details what will happen now!!!!; Friday, October 03, 2008 12:45:00 pm
Anonymous said...: From what I can see - they are not illegal, just amoral. They seem to be preying on the greed of people.
As most of the posts show - they collect data to sell on. This is huge business. Just look at the "Sponsors" - http://www.planet49.co.uk/wingame/multisponsor/sponsor.htm

Here is the list if you cant be arsed to visit

NEOPOINT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Scratch2Cash
50 Town Range Suite 7b/8b
Gibraltar

Intela, LLC.
Green Park House,
15 Stratton Street,
Mayfair,
London.
W1J8LQ

DTD European Services Ltd.
Hamilton House
Mabledon Place
Bloomsbury
London, WC1H 9BB
United Kingdom

Offerx Ltd
Lodore House
Church Road
Kemble
Cirencester
Gl7 6AA

Web-Clubs Ltd
Castle House
89 High Street
Berkhamsted
Herts
HP4 2DF
UK

MikkelsenMediaUK Limited
Studio F7, Battersea Studios
80 Silverthorne Road
London SW8 3HE
UK

Survey Sampling International
22, rue de Dunkerque
75010 Paris
France

PDV Limited
32 Farringdon Street
London. EC4A 4HJ
UK

Smartbox
1 bis rue Collange
92593 Levallois-Perret Cedex
France

Park Group Plc
Valley Road
Birkenhead
Merseyside
CH41 7ED
United Kingdom

CDiscount
3A Falcon Gate, Falcon Way, Shire Park,
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
AL7 1 TW, UK

Easy Voyage
71, rue Desnouettes
75015 Paris
France

There will be prises handed out but not at any rate of knots.

Again as the posts say - Just Avoid.; Sunday, November 09, 2008 7:32:00 pm
Anonymous said...: Congratulations!

Our random generator has JUST selected your email address (annon@.co.uk)from 500.000 newsletter recipients as possible winner of an Audi A3!!!

In the event of having been selected please click here

SELECTED EMAIL RECIPIENTS ALSO RECEIVE:

1. further additional prizes (Camcorder, Sony PSP, ...)
2. even a chance of winning 2 Audis

Participation is FREE and only takes 1 minute!

it looked odd so i checked the terms and conditions. it clearly states you pay the taxes and have to pick the item up from there office. some prize... keep it and the dodgy dealings you do planet tin pot company; Wednesday, November 19, 2008 6:37:00 pm
Anonymous said...: Thanx for the info guys about this planet 49 *#@&.

I realy do not understand these idiots still operate i mean.... are there realy people who click on their links.
first rule on unknow email senders. google their mssg and name. and voila you find most of the junk is in fact shit.... realt pathetic; Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:47:00 pm
Anonymous said...: Be very wary of the Planet49 scam: it's a sucker-site operation created to harvest personal data. - Read this for more info:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=822135; Saturday, January 31, 2009 10:06:00 pm
Anonymous said...: planet 49 are indeed selling on details ...dtd european services sells something called euro chance 100..i know from the inside that this is a lottery sydicate that doesnt payout what it takes in...the people who run it are german and dont treat employees very well dont give your details; Friday, February 06, 2009 6:09:00 pm
Anonymous said...: how glad am I that I thought to google planet49, I received a phonecall today telling me id made it down to the final few hundered in the draw for the audi A3, i went through a phase of entering internet competitions a while ago ( thankfully I dont anymore, ive won nothing but an inbox full of spam!) so my first thought was BINGO! lucky atlast.... then the caller went on ..and on .. and on...about Euro Chance 100, it was fortunate however that iwas standing in a field at the time so didnt have pen and paper to hand to take details and when they called back i was on another call.... i have read all i need to know ie. the syndicate does not payout what it takes in. Also i dont like companies that treat their staff like sh1t; Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:06:00 pm
Jeroen said...: They are clever tho the way they make their advertisements to be shown on other sites that use Adsense.

It's complete bullshit tho. I came across this site again, filled in the details with a temperorary email adres ( http://www.spamaccount.nl/ ) and noticed the big bullshit around it.

No wonder they have the biggest database in online marketing. They are claiming you can win some car or Plasma screen just to fill in your record(s). Out of these thousands records a day, they sell the list(s) towards any listbuyer that wants a potential customer for commercial purposes. I assume when such list(s) get sold for alot they can send out some prize, but i never readed anyone except for co-workers of planet49, claiming to actually won a price. Keep ranking this site up as people shoud'nt sign up to this bullshit.; Saturday, May 23, 2009 4:14:00 pm
Anonymous said...: James

Best thing I seen on the site is that legal action is prohibited lol so if you get scammed you cant take legal action :D; Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:49:00 pm
Unknown said...: this company is not knowing by anyone ive had money taking from my bank account by this company nd when i tried to find out what it was theres no such place ive never signed up with these ppl never gave them any details yet theyve managed to take money from me my bank it very kindly putting the money bk nd wrighting to this adress but im foaming NEVER BELIVE PPL THAT RING U ND TELL U YAVE WON SUMIK R W.E IT IS THESE PPPL DO; Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:07:00 am
Anonymous said...: The company is doing the rounds on the phones and give the company registration of 6004362 and a VAT registration number. They have small liability so getting money back is a no no.They cannot hang on to company secretaries and they have given the trading address as 273-287 Regent street London, BUT the call center is in Brighton. Here it comes the phone number given is 0844 880 2598 registered to DTD European Services Ltd. IF you dont get any joy there try the other number 02711 2001 100.Also have a look at www.whocallsme.co.uk . DO NOT GIVE BANK DETAILS TO ANYONE WHO CALLS YOU.; Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:30:00 pm
Anonymous said...: re: SCAM / FRAUD - PLANET 49 GMB!!!

Hi Everyone!
Im from Australia and was watching something on youtube..when a box on the right hand side of the tv screen was flashing with words saying:
"Dear internet user.
online right now at XX.XX am on ..blah, blah, blah date...etc...etc."
It was congratulating me saying I have been chosen to possibly win an LCD TV...

I thought, this is in youtube's site so it should be ok and genuine... so started filing in the first box with my name and email, then a second screen came up asking for other details inc my birthdate.. that's when I had a second thought and decided to GOOGLE their name LINKING with WORDS like 'LEGALITIES' etc... and I got here...
Like everyone else would like to thank you all for taking the time to share your experience with these SCAMMERS like PLANET49 GMB, because it helped me realised that this offer is definitely CRAP and 'crazy talk'.And worse, I can't believe YOUTUBE will allow such a scam... shame on them!!! This is not good for youtube's reputation.

Yup. Nothing comes for free and winning something for nothing is too good to be true!

Thanks! (- Anonymous from Australia)
* PS: Misleading people or hiding other info from people is still considered a 'fraud'!; Monday, October 12, 2009 2:26:00 am
Anonymous said...: People please just think! what kind of company that doesnt know YOU! doesnt care about YOU! doesnt want anything from YOU (but your personal details) would give you 20 grand Audi A3? who would be the stupid person to actually believe in that? who are you? notice how the first thing they ask on planet49 is your FIRST name, SURNAME then your email, thats it. then after your details. what kind of website is that, that just doesnt give you more options to navigate around it? it barely has anything! it somehow can efford to give you an expensive car and yet it cant even efford to make a good looking website? its as simple as this. you dont know me right? i dont know you too. you dont know the people who subscribe. so even if someone wins, you will never know. because the company knows that YOU will never know, then it doesnt give the prize to no one because everyone will think "she/he must of won the car instead" just put your friend on the other side of the wall and think "he must of won the prize" same as he will think to you "he must of won the prize" ! in UK all you need is your name, your address and your date of birth. then u can access everything like banks etc... these companys do indeed make money. but not legally...but because all this "underground" companys work all together, the "legal" companys that can sue these companys dont do nothing. anyways....; Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:38:00 am
Anonymous said...: Trying to SCAM a date of birth, name, address, telephone number etc....opens yourself to being a victim of ID fraud.; Friday, October 23, 2009 1:15:00 pm
Anonymous said...: if you click on their terms of conditions its just a broken link. this is a complete lie and luckily i gave them false information and googled it finding out that it is complete crap. How can someone believe that they will randomly get a tv?
as the saying goes 'nothing is for free!'; Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:14:00 am
Anonymous said...: I was on a greetings site and also became the 999,999 person selected to be a possible winner of Sharp Aquos LCD TV ...... it was Planet49 also !! I decided not to enter it.; Thursday, December 24, 2009 10:24:00 pm
Anonymous said...: ...they're getting good traffic, over a few million a per month. Check out their site stats at:

http://www.peekstats.com/www.planet49.com

...so many clowns, not enough circuses...; Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:49:00 am
Anonymous said...: Got hooked up with them too. Started by playing an IQ test and then went on to fill in my name and date of birth but put in a wrong address and closed off the site when it started asking me to tick some other stuff that i would like to win. My alarm bells went off and so i closed the site but i had already given my name, mobile number and D.O.B but thankfully a friend's address in another part of town. Can they still use the details to do stuff? like do i need to change my bank details or stuff? Will definately watch out for their call.; Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:53:00 am
Anonymous said...: For those of you out there who haven't been doing the maths lately or who have become visually impaired or plain cold stone deaf - All these information collecting agencies offering prizes as a front to their real agenda. It all comes frm the highest levels and yes it is all very legal in what definition of legality being. If it is from the government then it must be legal? But this company hasn't anything to do with the government, right? HA HA HA now who are the fools? What do you think these gene tests are all about? Why are you asked for your mothers maiden name or religion when signing secure forms etc? Come on people wake up for GOD sake - for Your sake!!! This is not a conspiracy from me but the new world order are after everyone's informaiton for a world accountability of lineage and personal associations so that we can be calssed into 3 main areas. The working bees, the administrators and the Gods at the top who we will be feeding ourselves to as this Antichrist cycle goes on and on. Has anyone been hearing rumors lately about the antichrist taking the seat or Rome as the new Pope????????? 2012... UFOs will be attacking earth very soon so the government can unite all nations to repel these (man made) invaders while the antichrist slips into world power. Then we are all DOOMED. That is what these information gathering gimics are all about. Mark my words or you'll be marked by the beast. Heaven is for all good people and religion has nothing to do with it. Just be honest and care about your fellow brothers and sisters in the civilian sense. Everything ese above us has already been infiltrated.; Sunday, February 14, 2010 11:43:00 pm
Anonymous said...: could someone please help me with the site details of planet49, as i need to unsubscribe from this crab, flook site, where unknowingly i have given ma details and a huge money is been added to my telephone bills for downloads of games and music which i have never ever done...; Friday, February 26, 2010 4:24:00 pm
Anonymous said...: No Free Lunches
One BIG BIG clue.....

If the email or website aren't even the same. Smell the BS.

Have you contacted them?

Would you be wary of me asking you your details on the street?

The NET is a Lie. Do what I do. Lie back and watch the sunrise.

Also if someone can't spell 'Prizes' the aroma of BS is still in the air.

Good luck out there. It's a dangerous world and just as dogy on the net.

X0L; Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:12:00 pm
Unknown said...: like any other company the owners of this one isnt untracable.

I have tracked them and ill put on little SC*m myself.

Ill get what i want from them and thats that; Monday, June 14, 2010 3:06:00 pm
Anonymous said...: They're crooks & frauds. My mobile phone bill went up, up & up as they send premium sms's and when you open them it costs you $6.50 each.... what scammers!!! Take Care and tell your friends about them so the word gets around!!!!!; Friday, July 16, 2010 12:00:00 am
Anonymous said...: i got a 'You've been selected as one of three people to Win and Apple Product!' email from Planet49 Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. Whatever. I googled them first and there is a website but its only one page (surprisingly suspicious..) Plus, the other 2 winners names were 'Michael Smith' and 'Anna Cole' not the most imaginative names but Im not sure whether to believe it or not.; Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:04:00 am
Anonymous said...: Michael Smith and Anna Cole won with me too. They must be very very lucky!; Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:58:00 am
Anonymous said...: I have just entered a competition with them via facebook and this is what they posted on my facebook:Paul Montague Just testing Facebook for iPhone out :P Received my free iPhone today, so happy lol.. If anyone else wants one go here: http://apps.facebook.com/octiphonepromo/. I did not get an i phone and when i completed the surveys it said i had to do them all again so please explain this one then; Sunday, October 03, 2010 1:35:00 pm
Anonymous said...: There's NO such thing as a free lunch, there's NO such thing as "You're the lucky winner!" without you being: scammed/email junked/entrapped to spend money/never sent your prize! Avoid any such sites from Teeth Whitening to "free winners" !!; Monday, October 25, 2010 1:48:00 am
Anonymous said...: Blatant criminal scam.
Virus infected PC's at my office are having their browser traffic redirected to planet49 websites.; Saturday, April 02, 2011 7:49:00 pm
Anonymous said...: I'V HAVE JUST RECEIVED MY BRAND AUDI A3 THAT I WON FROM PLANET 49 IN KANGARROO ISLAND. IT DOES HEARTY LINE LOCKS, NOW IT HAS BEEN REPORTED STOLEN AND LIFE SUX AGAIN. WTF.........???????????????!!!!!!!!!; Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:47:00 am
Anonymous said...: Hi I am also from Australia .planet49send premium SMS to people that have not subscribed and then bill you $6 au per SMS they send and continue to bill you until SMS them the word Stop .
My son is 26 and has autism and intellectual disability he startd to receive these SMS and just ignored them but the more he ignored them the more they sent so he came to me and said I don't know what these messages are but they won't stop sending them .so I sent SMS stating stop .
His Optus phone bill arrived and they have charged him $55 for SMS messages they have sent to his account .so I rang planet49 and told them I was taking them to court under the disability and mental health act and they said they were partners with Optus the phone service provider and that they would send a refund for half the money billed but couldn't refund any more because Optus were their partners and took the other half .i asked for the manager and the manager didn't exist and I asked for a reference number and they didn't exist either .i was called stupid and crazy when I told them they were scamming a disabled person and I would take it to the consumer watch dog fair trading and to scam watch .i contacted Optus and they rang planet49and got the same treatment and now we have been reissued a new bill with planet49 content billing and Optus is having a full enquiry into planet49 and it's business with Optus .
Not everyone that gets scammed bylanet49are morons some are very disabled .i have checked his phone records and at no point did he subscribe to these premium SMS .i really checked thoroughly .optus has placed a ban on all these 1900 SMS scams to his phone to protect .
It's disgraceful that they are even allowed to charge us for sending SMS to us , especially when you don't respond or agree to the subscription .i have reported it to scam watch and fair trading and now I wait to see if the government makes it illegal like it should be .
It's hard enuff keeping a person safe with autism without scammers on mobile phones doing it .; Tuesday, March 20, 2012 7:26:00 am
Anonymous said...: http://www.pick-your-apple.co.uk/cgi-bin/wingame.pl

i got a email stating that m one of the winner.
this is the exact mail with subject line as Customer Service.

" Hello (my name)

Congratulations - You are our possible winner!

We are happy to announce that you are among the few selected to win an Apple product:
iPhone 4S - iMac - New iPad - MacBook Air!
Please verify your entry as soon as possible, otherwise all prizes that are not answered for
will be re-entered in to the draw.

1. Stephanie Tailor
2. Joshua McLarens
3. my name

If your name appears above, click here: www.pick-your-apple.co.uk

Make sure you do not miss out and check to see if you are one of the chosen few to enter a final draw.

Good Luck,
Your Pick Your Apple Team "

The Apple company's name is coming. So if this is fake i think the company should take some actions against those involved.; Friday, May 11, 2012 4:49:00 am
Anonymous said...: I'm from France and got the similar email in French language of cause, this planet 49 used another name and claimed to be the partner of an online shopping website from which I buy things, that's the only reason I kept the email and studied a bit. When I clicked into the link they let me chose the audi a3's colour then asked for me personal details, there I saw the game's organiser called planet49 and I Google it. I do believe this fraud company playing their scam all around Europe!; Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:51:00 am
Anonymous said...: LOL! Seems Stephanie and Joshua must have won loads of stuff.... they were on my win notice too!haha!

Congratulations - You are our possible winner!

We are happy to announce that you are among the few selected to win an Apple product:
iPhone 4S - iMac - New iPad - MacBook Air!
Please verify your entry as soon as possible, otherwise all prizes that are not answered for
will be re-entered in to the draw.

1. Stephanie Tailor
2. Joshua McLarens
3. My name

If your name appears above: www.pick-your-apple.co.uk

Make sure you do not miss out and check to see if you are one of the chosen few to enter a final draw.

Good Luck,
Your Pick Your Apple Team

What more can be said?!; Tuesday, May 29, 2012 1:49:00 pm
Anonymous said...: "I do believe this fraud company playing their scam all around Europe!" Of course, they do. Same situation in Poland, Germany.; Monday, June 11, 2012 10:50:00 am
Anonymous said...: Not just Europe/Canada/Etc, I ended in such a page (planet49), once in a while, here in Brazil.
I think their formula is easy: They really deliver the prizes once a year (e.g. 2 cars, 10 ipads, 5 anything goodie), to be under the law. They receive millions of peoples personal data that makes much more money they had spent with the prizes. The form asks for very personal information so be aware they are using these info not just legally but illegally also. Like said other user: maybe legal but clearly immoral. Sorry for bad english, salutations !; Monday, July 02, 2012 9:36:00 pm
Anonymous said...: I got an email run by Planet49 but the website is free-choice. It does seem legit-ish but I still wonder. They havent asked me for any payment details only my name DOB and address - may not have been a good idea the address bit but oh well im moving from that place anyway in a few months. Still they cant get much info from me and they cant access my birth certificate. All the info ive given them can only get me at my address which im not even gonna be there soon.; Tuesday, July 31, 2012 5:31:00 am
Anonymous said...: But then again... I know why i got the email - one of their sponsors is a legit survey website.; Tuesday, July 31, 2012 5:33:00 am
Anonymous said...: Hi, I found this complaint about the company on another site.
It states....Hi all,
Recently I saw some easy-to-get-your-attention ads banner on top of this forum.

I usually ignore such ads... but dont know why, few days ago the ads stated "stand a chance to win a Ipad"...
I clicked & registered.... nothing happened except getting some emails saying I stood a chance in a lucky draw.

Just 15mins ago, got a sms, asked me to register. Then later got another sms asking me a question, to answer TRUE or FALSE, & also stated RM4.00/sms. I replied, another sms with question came,... after answering 4-5 sms, I got suspicious, wanted to stop, but the sms said "you are one step away"... I answered altogether 12 sms, RM48 total... now no news!!
I checked the links in the emails I received & they traced back to a "registered company" Planet49 Asia Pacific Pte Ltd... not sure it actually exists.

I'm too stupid/greedy to believe. I want to warn all of you that do not fall for it... I hope I'm the ONLY one kena conned!! Crying or Very sad

....

LOOKS LIKE A SCAM; Saturday, April 27, 2013 4:16:00 pm
R.B said...: http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/planet49.com.sg; Friday, March 21, 2014 7:42:00 pm
R.B said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; Friday, March 21, 2014 7:42:00 pm
Bronwynh said...: if it has anything at all to do with Planet49, it is likely to be dodgy. Be very careful.

Remember that your personal information and purchasing intentions constitutes valuable information. Don't give it away>; Tuesday, December 30, 2014 2:03:00 am
Anonymous said...: Oh, I just saw it in my page, that I won an iPhone 6 (using spinner) after taping the button another page appeared and "choose either iPhone 6,iPhone 6s or an iPad. After choosing another page appeared, it's a set of steps that needs to fill up:

Mr..Ms..
Name:
Surename:
Email:

etc..

It seems like a scam..; Friday, April 15, 2016 2:25:00 pm
Berry said...: U only gave ur add n date of birth.. after that is there anything happened?; Tuesday, September 20, 2016 4:54:00 pm
Berry said...: U only gave ur add n date of birth.. after that is there anything happened?; Tuesday, September 20, 2016 4:55:00 pm

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