They can impose very large fines. Finding the hidden word is easy, spotting the hidden phone charges is less obvious. Over 14K Members - become a comper today. 09 September 2019. Registered in England. Actors’ photos may be used to represent genuine winners. They said on the competition line u can get free puzzell books so I pressed any button to request for a free booklet. This letter appears to suggest that the recipient is eligible for a £7000 prize - all they have to do is phone (I can confirm the call costs £9.60 - thanks to using a magnifying glass on the small print). These puzzles appear to run in newspapers, online and on TV. They may decide it doesn't. Companies like this one are allowed to con people and its legal, where is the justice and accountability of the channel to monitor what they air!!! For more details of these cookies and how to disable them, see our cookie policy. Lizzymay - If you've seen the advert on ITV and you believe it breaks the rules you can complain to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). She was among thousands of people convinced they had won a big prize, lured into making further expensive phone calls to claim it. As a responder to this promotion, Churchcastle Ltd may contact you with other exciting competition offers by phone, post and SMS. That was the contest Phone Pay Plus later levied the £800,000 fine for - and instructed Churchcastle to pay back anyone who asked. £15,000. They will probably refer you to the ASA but if they receive a lot of complaints they will also most likely check the ad complies with the Advertising Code. Eastenders is there to fool you. It's unbelievable that this company is still perpetrating this scam 3 years after I first wrote about it. The Authority has the power to levy large fines and stop services if companies break those rules. 1 prize to be won! More for CHURCHCASTLE LIMITED (04301808) Registered office address 23 Shackleton Court 2 Maritime Quay, London, England, E14 3QF . 800-533-8022. It's an obvious scam. If you, or a friend or relative has been caught out, unaware it costs £10 to enter, or that it is unclear entries for the £10,000 prize are pooled together with entries for other contests then you can complain to the PSA Authority. How much they make from this!!!!! If you accept this opportunity but no longer wish to be contacted, please let us know by calling 01424 479 7531. She has since found out that another £8.00+ has been taken from her card. Coincrete Ltd specialise in mail order processing, visual and audio data capture, brochure fulfilment, inbound and outbound call handling and databasee management for a total solution. The operator was helpful and immediately offered to remove her name and address from further mailings - but this could take a  few days, so she may receive further contests in the post. YOU MUST HAVE THE PERMISSION OF THE BILL PAYER TO MAKE THE CALL. Forget paper tickets! Win TV Competitions. Typical cleverly worded ad to provoke an emotional response around greed. Contact customer service to refuse. MAX CALL COST £3.60 plus your phone company’s access charge. Demand that I accept within 4 days but the draw will not take place before 9th October.The puzzle is far far too easy and the extra word very obvious, This looks like a method of getting people's private information as there is no promise to keep it confidential - they actually state that winners' details and maybe photograph will be made public.s.i.n. Thanks very much for lifting the lid on this mail scam then and about time too, if I may say so!!! ITV General Competition, Prize Draw, Vote and Poll Terms and Conditions. Thank you for contributing here. The first call lasted 2 minutes 51 seconds and cost £10.32. I'm helping him to liaise with the bank and get all this cancelled. At Student Competitions, companies are organizing competitions that students can participate in. But if you respond to Churchcastle, in St Leonards-on-Sea, it can sell your details to "approved" clients via a mailing list broker called the J Partnership Ltd. Not much has changed. The quizzes are overpriced with a lot of after marketing to say the least. Really should be banned as its a scam and not really a competition at all. Win TV Competitions. Designers may consider the impacts of global population shifts, proximity of major cities to coastlines, new materials and building techniques, as well as the rise of co-housing, tiny homes, smart houses and marketplaces like Airbnb. Then I got cut off. Churchcastle Limited has been running for 19 years. You can click any headline to take you straight into the ALF profile page of the company or person that is the focus of the article. If you don’t wish to receive these offers please opt-out by calling 0808 206 4390; or write to PO Box 143, Rye Harbour Road, Rye, TN31 9GF; or email optout@coincrete.co.uk. Half of you guys think the puzzles are too easy, and the other half of you didn't realise it but you actually got the answer wrong! CHURCHCASTLE LIMITED - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity 20 prizes to be won! YOU MUST HAVE THE PERMISSION OF THE BILL PAYER TO MAKE THE CALL. Anon 30 December. It has not affected me but I can imagine even a one off phone call is very expensive especially if you have to wait or recall. Company status Active Company type Private limited Company Incorporated on 9 October 2001. Is it that the competition is misleading? Shame on the TV companies for allowing them to scam money from vulnerable people. Lock them up and throw away the key.Impressed by the Prizes? Varsity Spirit Corporate. So don't spend anymore time writing to ITV. Choose a competition below to enter. Churchcastle and The Sun - Wordsearch Competition ends in huge phone bill, Beware TFL Contactless Payment overcharging with Credit Cards. This skill competition is not connected to this broadcasting media. 1972!!!!!!! Yes, I entered into one of these. Fashion Competitions Camps Varsity TV Shop Special Events Performing Arts Other. It may be that the PSA Authority is already monitoring Wynnington. Alternative postal entry: send your name, address and puzzle answer to customer services, marking your envelope ‘£10,000 Music Giveaway’. Bearing in mind the aunt is very deaf and can't always understand what people are saying over the phone, she gave in and read out her card details to pay the £1.90. Eastenders was first shown in 1985. We have competitions in various categories from cash prizes to the latest gadgets, so take a good look around. When I complained about Churchcastle to the Sun (who ran their puzzles) in 2012 the reader services dept instructed them to refund the £120 my partner's mum spent entering their contests. ITV comps, Channel 5, Sky, STV, BBC, Channel 4 and more comps and news stories are all posted here daily. The Service consisted of word search puzzle competitions, which consumers had to complete in order to enter into premium rate prize draws for large cash prizes, or to obtain items of jewellery. Lifestyle Win £219 of DermaSMART® Anti-aging Skin Supplements. The fun doesn't stop there though. Wynnington answered the phone quickly. You can check numbers on their website here. 10 play competitions, enter online to win loads of free stuff - cash giveaways, cars, holidays Exactly the sort of Victim they want to target.My advice, MINIMUM register (if in the UK with the Mail Preference Service, runs like the Tel. She had no idea it cost £10 for each entry. 朗 PS5 + 55inch TV #15 朗 Draw @ 12pm Thursday - Winner - Good-Luck Everyone The cost must be clear, vulnerable people (e.g. We all need to remember, just because you didn't win the prize it doesn't mean it's a scam. Rule 8.21.1 of the CAP Code prohibits promotions where consumers incur a cost to claim a prize and therefore charging a consumer to ring and claim their prize is unacceptable (Churchcastle Ltd t/a Spencer & Mayfair 2011, 20 February 2013). If you are saying that the phone system does not work you should file a complaint with the PSA Authority. An example of one of the letters Churchcastle send to Sun readers who respond to the competitions advertised in the newspaper. You should also contact Wynnington / Churchcastle and request a refund. Once the service is set up you need to program the numbers you wish to block using your telephone keypad. People will agree to the terms unwittingly. I think Churchcastle should stop this comp and they should be banned using TVads .how can they be allowed when people get big phone bills ! 4301808. Hi keep seeing wordsearch comp on the TCM Channels loom carefully at the dated given whenEastenders fist starred it wasn't. I entered the Wordsearch Competition a couple of months ago with the correct Word. The top competition listing site in South Africa. We haven't heard anything yet, but its was only a few days ago. After spotting the hidden word in a grid contestants must make a 3 minute phone call costing over £10 to submit their answer. When that route to riches was shut down with a hefty fine from the regulator, they moved to taking credit card and bank card details from their confused elderly word search fans who thought they'd won life changing sums. There is currently 1 active director and 1 active secretary according to the latest confirmation statement submitted on 9th October 2020. Runs until won Lifestyle Win a Stilord Laptop Bag. T/A £10,000 Music Giveaway. An advert for this was on tv (Sony Movies channel) today. Telephone call to say she had won the competition she entered from the TV. Then I entered again. This was later reduced on appeal to around half that figure. But now Churchcastle are back in business running word search contests under the brand 'Wynnington Wynners'. Avoid at all cost. computer says no... probably to make you phone again to charge you another £10. When they've found the hidden word entrants must phone a premium rate phone line to enter. We're on Twitter - follow us today. Effectively it is a Draw into the Draw, with just one award of £7,000-10,000.Plain FRAUD. Entries made outside the times when the entry line is open will not be accepted but may still be charged. Check your card statement very carefully if you use  contactless payment on  London Transport TFL  instead of Oyster Using a credit car... Aviva Insurance Renewal - free number on envelope, Premium Number inside Aviva sent me a home insurance renewal this morning. This advert may be advertised in various forms of print and television media and requires entrants to solve various forms of word puzzle and quiz style games. Leads people to believe only those who saw that ad are likely to enter so you may have a larger chance of winning. Explore our latest competitions and enter for your change to win great prizes. I looked on Wikipedia and mastermind started in 72, If you look at the word going down to the left of eastenders and read from the bottom up it's mastermind which started in 72. T/A £9,500 Gardening Giveaway. Churchcastle Limited is an active company incorporated on 9 October 2001 with the registered office located in London, Greater London. They are currently taking £8.25 a fortnight. There is a TV series called 'Rip Off Britain' We should write to them perhaps or your local consumer company. MAX CALL COST £3.60 plus your phone company’s access charge. Plus we will bring you UK competitions from the other TV channels such as The Gadget Show competition. You can complain to the PSA Authority (The Phone Paid Services Authority) they are the regulator and they can instruct companies to refund and they can also impose fines if companies don't stick to the rules. All the entries go into one pot and there is 1 winner. The second entry took 3 minutes and 1 second and cost £10.92 - those extra 10 seconds cost 60p more to enter the same contest. As this is the only show in the word search, the answer is wrong, therefore the competition should be void. Plus we will bring you UK competitions from the other TV channels such as The Gadget Show competition. My partner sent this by email. 71 competitions live now! Let us know how you get on. SPONSORS AND PARTNERS. I have just received a Certificate of Achievment Award saying i solved the 19.500 Royal challenge Teevision Competition.EastendersI will contact a Solicitor and sue the Company . premium rate competition service (the “Service”) operated by the Level 2 provider Churchcastle Limited on numerous 090 and 0871 numbers. This is a summary of the latest news in the advertising industry – helping you stay up to date and get an edge on the competition. Eastenders is indeed in the grid.. I hope I win on Friday the 26 of June for entering the right answer in less than 60 seconds. After entering the contest and leaving their name and address entrants are sent more puzzles in the post. Prizes will be sent to the address in your My Profile area so please keep this up to date. Got a letter saying I have a good chance of winning the £1,500 prize iv phoned the number 3 times now never again I will be complaining need them shut down for good scammers, I'm so glad I saw this I rang recently I won't be ringing again, Church castle are on ITV3 every day during the day with there work search in between every advert break the latest one is a free phone number it don't run out until next year, I entered the last free one & was played with more and more draws they were worded in a way you had to enter to qualify. https://puzzleplayonline.co.uk/wordsearch-winner/ suggests you can 'buy' a Wordsearch book and enter for free but IDK if they use 'free' entry via post as a way of subduing ASA. children, elderly, ill) must not be targeted. As a responder to this promotion, Churchcastle Ltd may contact you with other exciting competition offers by phone, post and SMS. Entertainment Win a Ferrari thrill at Silverstone. TV weekly prize draws and competitions often top a quarter of a million pounds in cash prizes, holidays, gadgets and cars, with television station itv / stv and Channel 5 being the most generous. Don't trust wordseach I been waiting 5 days for my £2500 and got nothing, Panasonic Bread Machine - Bread Not Rising - Special Investigation. Anon - your friend who has run up a bill of hundreds of pounds. Hi keep seeing wordsearch comp on the TCM Channels look carefully at the date given when Eastenders first started it wasn't 1972! They used to create a charge to phone bills via a premium rate phone call. The word search where they want you to find a tv show first aired in 1972, they have the answer as eastenders. some "promises" include that calls will last no more than 2 minutes and costs not exceed £7.40 plus phone company's access charge. The latest on 20 Sept 2017 with the amount I am legible to win now at £11950!. Have you written to Wynnington Wynners asking for a refund? The organisers are not responsible for printing or technical errors and reserve the right to amend competition details without notice if there are circumstances outside their reasonable control. have freind who has spend many hundreds of pounds on this scam.unaware until the phone bill arrived.this person sits in the cold over xmas in an effort to pay these bills.while these fat scammers sit in luxury in switzerland.close them down.hit them hard where it will hurt with a big fine and bancrupcy, Lennyshef1 - you can complain to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) who regulate TV advertising on behalf of Ofcom. The advertiser has to follow their rules. Competitions Madness Meet And Greet - Facebook Competition. This contest and company should not be allowed to air or continue these scams.the phone in system is rigged to make you fail.we had the answer to tv show 1972 being Mastermind for £19,000 prize. August 2020 But now Churchcastle are back in business running word search contests under the brand 'Wynnington Wynners'. Contact customer service to refuse. Of course you're probably not going to win - it's a prize draw! This is why we and our trusted Commerce Partners use 'cookies' to remember and store information about how you use our site. Church Services TV was established in 2005 and streams services over the internet helping parishes and other religious organisations expand their reach across the globe well beyond what was traditionally possible. Think they need o stop it why do people think they'll win !just end up with a hugh phone bill!how can they let these compando these rip off comps! We spotted it on her phone bill. I noticed this too. I phoned Wynnington to ask them to consider refunding the cost of at least the second call - as it was clearly made because my partner's 96 year old mum didn't think her call had entered correctly. Email Address: Sign Up. The organisers are not responsible for printing or technical errors and reserve the right to amend competition details without notice if there are circumstances outside their reasonable control. Entries made outside the times when the entry line is open will not be accepted but may still be charged. Approved by Facebook, Apple and Google, Raffall is the SAFE way to enter competitions online! 18 April 2019. The only place where you can find ALL the Irish competitions. Let us entertain you! It may be that you need help developing your product or service, that you need help cracking a tricky design challenge or looking for long term interns. For more details of these cookies and how to disable them, see our cookie policy. The HOME competition invites all designers to explore ideas of domestic architecture for the future. Ref: GCT/MH/SM/20171027/120R We use cookies to ensure we can continue to deliver a personalised service, just for you. One £9,500 winner will be selected at random from a pool of all correct entries received to all puzzle variations on 29/01/2021.Should you be a winner, your contact details, testimonial and photograph may be used for publicity purposes. However, I receive a letter from there every few weeks. They cannot impose any meaningful sanctions. Competitions at Argos. *YOU MUST BE A UK RESIDENT AGED OVER 18. Their web address is www.psauthority.org.uk or you can phone 0300 30 300 20 (Mon-Fri 9.30-5.00). Churchcastle Ltd 2021. ... contract, agreement, questionnaire, competition entry. Google searches for my original articles about Churchcastle. I prefer the puzzles to be harder because it increases our chances of winning. When correct name is called in over the telephone you are asked to press any key. All other entries will be made via premium rate phone call. They have the power to stop phone services, and demand refunds for calls that are over-charged or last longer than advertised, or require follow up calls. 3 prizes to be won! The answer is emmerdale but it's not on the grid. Runs until won Sport Win an OGIO Shadow Fuse 304 Stand Golf Bag. For those that have not read my previous posts Churchcastle received a massive £800,000 fine from PhonePayPlus (the previous regulator of premium rate telephone lines). Mel - as I wrote above companies who use premium rate telephone services have a legal responsibility to protect the vulnerable. Actors’ photos may be used to represent genuine winners. She phoned twice, one call followed immediately by another in late April. Gyms famously make most of their pro... Beware Easylife Group Limited, 'free trial' Easylife Rewards Club membership and Rocket Marketing Group Also bewar... Churchcastle run adverts like this in The Sun newspaper. Be sure to pay attention to the instructions and competition clue. I see no evidence anyone wins (they probably do, given they're allowed to exist, but somehow I doubt that it's anybody duped into actually playing the game).I'm also angry, though not affected, I imagine a lot of people are. I helped him to contact the bank and cancel the card but they obviously had enough information to set up a direct debit. The obvious program in the grid is Eastenders which would be the wrong answer but its probably what most people put in so have no chance of winning. How many people have wasted their money on these scams. Watch your favorite South Indian TV Serials with all the drama and emotion of the family and stay updated on your choice of television programs. Yes, £10. If you have a BT phone line you can also ask BT (dial 151) to block premium rate numbers. Again there is a Wordsearch Puzzle to solve & to claim phone a 0906 number. The phone number is 0906 6350368. You will need to show that it isn't. 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