**URGENT HELP PLS** Comp win - is it legit????

[Scary_Fish]

Ok my bezzy mate has had a call/email from the Daily Mail to say has won this comp -

E: 31/07 Win a VIP jet tour of California - MoneySavingExpert.com Forums

Had this email - (Yes addresses and names correct)

HI XXXX

Congratulations again.

The details of the prize is below and is for you and 1 friend/family

Please confirm you can do the following:

· The holiday has to be taken from the 12th September to the 20th September

· Please provide me with your passport number

· You address is XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX


Can you also provide me with your companions details:


· Legal Name

· DOB

· Passport Number

· Name & Address

I am sorry for the urgency of this but please can you confim and send me all the above details today or tomorrow morning.

Details of the prize

Jet off for a VIP trip of lifetime. You and your companion will fly courtesy of Virgin Holidays to Los Angeles, where California Tourism will roll out the red carpet as you begin a 7 night jet tour taking in L.A (2 nights at The W hotel in Hollywood), Monterey (1 night at the Hyatt Recengy), San Francisco (2 nights at the Sir Francis Drake) Yosemite and Fresno (1 night at the Hilton Garden Inn) before returning to LA for one night (The W Hotel) before your return flight to the UK.

You will be provided with a T.H .E pass (which includes Famous Hollywood Highlights Double Decker Bus Tour, 1 Day – Six Flags Magic Mountain Thrill Pass, 1 day Universal Studios Pass, LA city Tour by night) to explore at your leisure. (terms & conditions below)

Many thanks
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Project Planning Manager


And wants to take me (hurray etc)

So - we have rung the Daily Mail to check bird is real - vis num,ber on website - and got her voice mail.

Emailed to ask -


What board basis is included at each hotel? Exactly which meals/drinks/tranfers are included please and which are not?
Are we commited to buy food at the respective hotels - if so can you please give me a sample menu for each venue?
What other items are we commited to pay for while on the holiday?


Can anyone think of anything esle that could possibly be dodgey on this - obv need to fork out spending/visa/transfers etc - how else can we check up and what would we need to know???

[Dom]

Did they enter the competition ?

Seems like it could be legitimate but I'd go through the Daily Mail main switchboard to contact the person who sent the email just to be on the safe side. Did the email come from a Daily Mail email address and when you replied did it go to the same email address ?

[Tathan]

^ yes, reply by phone.

[Scary_Fish]

yer email checks out and rang switchboard and got right name voice mail. Problem now is just how the fracking hell can i go - either no job - no money. Or job - no holidays aargh

[Tathan]

I'll go

[Scary_Fish]

Not going - can't risk job stuff AARGH FFS etc etc

[Nemesis]

Oh well it's only a jet tour of California. You can always blast around Crewe in Wayne's metro.