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Class-action suit accuses Coors of bogus sweepstakes entries :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Business

October 7, 2009

STNG Wire
A class-action federal lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Coors and Miller beers on behalf of more than 100 people who were allegedly issued invalid codes for an ongoing sweepstakes.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court, claims the companies began “The Coors Light Silver Ticket Sweepstakes” on Aug. 1 to increase sales of its products but incorrectly issued invalid codes, which did not allow consumers to enter the sweepstakes.
The sweepstakes began on Aug. 1. and is scheduled to continue until Oct. 31, according to the suit. The grand prize is two tickets to a 2009 regular-season NFL game and the first prize is a $100 NFLShop.com gift certificate.

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Tax collectors trolling Facebook - MSN Money

Tax collectors trolling Facebook
You might want to pay your taxes before posting a professional profile or making a financial boast on a social-networking site, the taxman's new tool for tracking deadbeats.

By The Wall Street Journal
Tax deadbeats are finding someone actually reads their MySpace and Facebook postings: the taxman.

State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networking Web sites, from relocation announcements to professional profiles to financial boasts.

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NFL CONTESTS LIST COMING NEXT WEEK

ESPN College Pick'em The Grand Prize winner will receive a trip for two (2) to a 2009-2010 college bowl game of his/her choice. This does not include the national championship game. The trip includes round-trip airfare, 3-day/2-night hotel accommodations and two (2) game tickets.
http://games.espn.go.com/cpickem

ESPN - College Football Challenge - WIN a trip for two (2) to the 2010 national championship game.
http://games.espn.go.com/cfc/en/frontpage

athlonsports.com two (2) Tickets to see Jason Aldean in concert a 42in. JVC high def TVa JVC Blu-ray Player and a JVC high def Everio Camera
http://wideopen.athlonsports.com/

Fan Formula Sign Up for a Chance to Win a 60in. HDTV
http://www.fanformula.com/fan/pages/college_football/registration.asp

fannation.com Football Pick’em One (1) Grand Prize: One (1) PS3 System and 2010 NCAA Football Game (ARV: $358.99). Fourteen (14) Competition Period Prizes (one prize awarded per Competition Period): One (1) 2010 NCAA football game (ARV: $59.99 each)
http://www.fannation.com/college_pickem

Clickoff Classic -You'll battle for cash $100 and prizes
http://www.clickoff.com/

Sportsco- Weekly $50 Cash Prize
http://www.sportsco.com/cfootpool/cfootpool.htm

vegasinsider.com WIN $5,000 College Football Handicapping Challenge at VegasInsider.com, Pickem Contest
http://www.vegasinsider.com/contests/handicapping-challenge/college-football/picks/

cfbpredictions.com Eight Conference Challenges, WIN $20
http://www.cfbpredictions.com/contests/conference-challenges

cfbpredictions.com Top 25 Challenge, win $10 a week or $40 final prize
http://www.cfbpredictions.com/contests/top-25-weekly-challenge

Deseret Morning News Grid Picks - Each week the entrant predicting the most games correctly wins two tickets to a Utah Jazz basketball game — date and teams to be determined by the Deseret News — and a Grid Picks T-shirt. Six runners-up each week receive a T-shirt. http://deseretnews.com/gridpicks/1,3518,,00.html

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CHANCE - NOW CASTING!

Name: Alexis Diamond

Category: General

Email: adiamond@me.com

Title: Supervising Casting Producer

Media Outlet: TV - Major Cable Network

Specific Geographic Region: N

Region:

Deadline: 12:10pm PACIFIC - 02 October

Query:
A Major Cable Network and Executive Producer, RYAN SEACREST are teaming up
to bring you... "CHANCE"!
Do you need CA$H to fulfill your dreams? No
matter how extraordinary, selfless or off the wall your dream might be, a
new reality game show needs you! Whether you’re asking for $50.00 or
$250,000 if you’ve got passion and the gift of gab the money could be
yours!
You can literally ask for anything! Is there something youve
always wanted but could never quite afford? Do you have a lifelong
ambition that you are desperate to fulfill? Were looking for people to
come up with unique and exciting ideas.
How to Apply:
1. EMAIL:
adiamond@me.com with... - Your name, age, city you live in, occupation -
Your story! How much money do you need? What would you use the money for?
How important is this to you?
OR
2. ATTEND AN OPEN CALL in LA, NY,
Austin, St. Louis or Miami! (Specific locations TBA. Our website will be
updated this week) If you need money and want your dreams to come true,
come plea your case at one of our open calls. We will be holding open
casting calls in LA, NY, Austin, St. Louis and Miami. All ages may apply
no DREAM is too BIG or too SMALL! If you want to apply for the show,
You MUST bring the following items with you to the open call to be
considered.
1. Your completed and signed application. (Please download
at: www.castingduo.com/chance) 2. Your 2-3 minute pitch on why you NEED
the money and what it will buy you. 3. A recent clear photo of yourself or
your group (if you're applying as a group). 4. A photocopy of your
Driver's License or government issued Photo ID. 5. If you have props,
visuals, costumes, etc...Please bring them!
For more information, open
call locations and to download the application please
visit: www.castingduo.com/chance
Alexis Diamond Supervising Casting
Producer "Chance" - Ryan Seacrest Productions www.castingduo.com

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Packers.com 90th Birthday Trivia Challenge

Dan Meylor from Mitchell, S.D., Grand Prize Winner; 90 Packers Prizes Awarded

More than 24,000 fans recently participated in the Green Bay Packers' 90th Birthday Trivia Challenge, an online contest that featured daily trivia questions on various aspects of the team's rich history.

A total of 268 participants answered all 19 questions correctly and Dan Meylor, from Mitchell, S.D., was randomly selected from that group as the grand prize winner. As the winner, Dan won two club seats to the Packers-Bengals game at Lambeau Field, Sept. 20, and will lead the Packers alumni on the field to be introduced at halftime during alumni weekend ceremonies.

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Contests and Giveaways Move To New, Fast Terrain of Twitter - WSJ.com

On July 1, Moonfruit was a below-the-radar Web-site building company with 400 followers on Twitter. Just a few days later, the London-based company had acquired 47,000 followers on the micro-blogging site, traffic to its home page had increased by 1,300% and the word "moonfruit" was popping up all over the Internet.
The 52-employee firm says its new-found recognition was the result of a Twitter contest that went viral, and it's a marketing tactic increasingly being used by small businesses.
While companies have used traditional contests for years to generate buzz, a Twitter contest is superior because "retweeting" spreads brand awareness even quicker, says Dan Zarrella, a social-media consultant based in Boston. Case in point: for three days "#Moonfruit" was on Twitter's trending topics list, which tracks the most popular words on the site.
"People like free stuff and you can often motivate them to do a lot for it," Mr. Zarrella says.

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Consumerist - Sorry, We Ran Out Of Free Tote Bags..Buy Some Wine Instead - Wine

Pacific Rim's experience with their totebag giveaway should serve as a cautionary tale to any company that wants to put up a nice, limited-scale offer of free stuff online.
Pacific Rim gave away "Save Water/Drink Riesling" cloth totebags for free on their Web site. The deal went viral, and was featured on Buxr and, yes, even on Consumerist's very own Morning Deals on June 1st. The company didn't quite expect what happened next—they received 80,000 requests for the 3,000 tote bags they had planned to give away. Oops. Their system wasn't even set up to cut off the deal after 3,000 requests.
They sent an e-mail out to the last 77,000 people to sign up for the freebie

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OnlineBootyCall Million Dollar Sweepstakes

OBC threw an extravagant red carpet, VIP event hosted by Tila Tequila and a smorgasbord of Playboy Playmates in his honor. See his exciting journey from start to finish and find out if he won a million dollars.

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YouTube - Keystone Live Your Dreams Winner from Georgia

http://www.keystonervgiveaway.com

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Grab Your Facebook Vanity URL

Grab Your Facebook Vanity URL
If you have used Facebook in the past, you probably have noticed that profile pages have really weird URLs, something like http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=767842914. The problem with those URLs is that they are impossible to remember, can’t be shared easily and are not descriptive.
To fix the issue, Facebook will start letting its users pick “vanity URLs,” which will contain the name of the user. If your user is called John Doe, for instance, you should be able to pick facebook.com/johnd or facebook.com/john.doe or some other combination of name and surname. Read more at link above..

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CENTURY 21 REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCES 'PATH TO YOUR DREAMS SWEEPSTAKES' $221,000 GRAND PRIZE WINNER AT GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL - With Video

CENTURY 21 REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCES 'PATH TO YOUR DREAMS SWEEPSTAKES' $221,000 GRAND PRIZE WINNER AT GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL
Broadway Cares and Grammy winner, Ashanti celebrate Century 21 Real Estate's winner with a special performance of the song "Home" from "The Wiz"
PARSIPPANY, N.J. (June 22, 2009) /PRNewswire/ — Century 21 Real Estate LLC, the franchisor of the world's largest residential real estate sales organization, today announced its 'Path to Your Dreams Sweepstakes' winner, Kimberly Green of Dalton, Ga.

An emergency room nurse, Green will use the prize money toward the purchase of a home for her family. "I can't thank CENTURY 21 enough for their tremendously kind and generous prize," said Green. "I'm so excited to get to work with our agent to see the possibilities and start searching for my family's new home." ...(cont. at link above)

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Sweepstakes queen shares secrets to beat odds | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Eat your heart out, all of you Super Bowl wannabes. Greta and Glen Kirby of Carthage, Tenn., will be at Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Fla., today after Greta won a sweepstakes prize that included two free tickets to the game, roundtrip airfare on Southwest Airlines, four nights at a luxury hotel, a party at the Monkey Bar in Orlando, Fla., transportation and $250 in spending money.

Greta won it all in a beef jerky sweepstakes, of all things.

Now, before you begrudge Greta her enviable Oh Boy! Oberto Super Bowl Sweepstakes win and write it off to blind luck, you have to hear what this contest contessa routinely does to win big.

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New Cumberland Retiree Wins $1 Million from Dollar General

NEW CUMBERLAND, W.Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For retired horse trainer Charlie Bourque, this was no ordinary shopping trip to his favorite Dollar General. This morning, on the eve of a new year, Charlie was prepared to bring home something he never dreamed possible.

$1 million. Or $10,000. One of those prizes was his.

An oversized check in the parking lot of the North Chester Street Dollar General store held the potentially life-changing number. As a winner in Dollar General’s Shop ‘N Win Millionaire Sweepstakes, all Charlie had to do was unveil it.

As a nervous crowd looked on and with cameras rolling, Charlie began uncovering digits on the oversized check, starting at the decimal and moving left. He quickly uncovered four zeroes. Then, after a long pause, Charlie uncovered a fifth “0.” The crowd erupted in applause....

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L.A. Woman Wins Prolab Contest, Receives $20,000…and Gives It to Her Father for Christmas! CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

CHATSWORTH, Calif. - (Business Wire) Prolab Nutrition, Inc. announces that Los Angeles resident, Karla Reyes, is the grand-prize winner of the 2008 Prolab Charging Forward Dodge Charger Giveaway sweepstakes.† Given the option of a new car versus cash value, Ms. Reyes is accepting the cash -- $20,000 total -- which she is giving to her father as a Christmas present! ..

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A FAMILY OBSESSED WITH THE THRILL OF ENTERING SWEEPSTAKES SWAPS LIVES WITH A FAMILY WHO ARE LIVING AN ENDLESS PARTY, ON ABC'S "WIFE SWAP"

A family who spend 10 hours a day entering sweepstakes swap lives with a family of party animals, on the next episode of "Wife Swap," FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

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