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Twelve Things That Are Not a Winning Notification

Prize scams work because real promotions are genuinely confusing. Here is how to tell the difference in about four seconds.

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A prize table you cannot find the odds for

A quieter tell, and a useful one for judging real promotions too.

Not every unimpressive promotion is a scam. Some are simply bad, and this is how you spot those.

A legitimate promotion states either its odds or the formula for them. If there is no odds statement anywhere in the rules, and no entry count, and no “depends on entries received” formula, then nobody has committed to anything about your chances.

That is worth noticing even when everything else is above board. A promotion that will not tell you your odds has told you how it thinks about you.