Is it just me, or does anyone else get a copious amount of spam in their junk whenever they enter a competition through gleam.io?
I've stopped entering comps because of this reason (so that's one less competition in the system lol). But would anyone know how to stop this from happening without having to not enter hahah
Something like a free SimpleLogin or Anonaddy account would be great for this. You can have an email that you can disable or filter without getting all that spam to your main email.
Ditto, as well as another Simcard & cheap Android phone.
I do but I'm a bit of a shit about unread emails 😂 so I see the number and need to make it to zero.
I just check the inbox once a day, bulk tick any email where the email subject doesn't look like it has anything to do with announcing winners, then mark them all as read. So I still get that satisfaction of a cleared inbox.
Separate email as above. Forward it to your main email (spam comes along) or monitor a separate mailbox fir potential notification of wins.
Use something like Apple's Hide My Email. Or any throwaway mail service.
Own a domain with a catch all mailbox.
Side note: I also have a secondary phone number as an eSIM for adhoc services that need a number
I spent about 2 months back in 2019 entering every competition that was open to everyone. I haven't entered a competition since then.
In the email I created specifically for competitions I currently have 24,000 unread emails. 22,770 of which are labelled "Promotion" by Gmail, but the inbox is exclusively filled with marketing as well.
I'd recommend staying away from Gleam competitions as usually you are required to follow/like social media accounts which then give you even more advertising (unless you create alternate social media just for comps)
How many did you win?
Only ones I've won are those involved in game of skills.
Seems better to just do ozbargain ones like bws. Free 10.
None unfortunately. Maybe if I kept it up I would have gotten something eventually.
But I have "won" a free bulla spoon and $20 from bws for singing happy birthday 😃🎉
I've made burner Twitter, Twitch, and Pinterest accounts (with the same comps-only email I use for them all) just to keep it separated from my day-to-day stuff
Won anything through it?
Nothing. (yet)
It's not really spam because you're agreeing to sign up to it as part of the competition, that's the whole reason they run the competitions.
As mentioned above, seperate email. Or if you use gmail, make use of the + symbol. Sign up using [email protected] then set a rule to forward all those emails to their own folder so you never seem them. You can also use gmail to mass unsubscribe to stuff.
Hardest part is finding out if you actually won if they send it by email though.
The whole point of competitions is to get your email and personal info.
I've received a decent amount of spam/junk (about 100 emails a day which I skim over) from both gleam and non-gleam giveaways, I would say it's more the host/creator, not gleam itself. Once you sign up to a company's email list, whether that's gleam or not, you'll receive a bunch of spam. How often? Up to the company/business.
Not all giveaways require you to sign up to their email newsletters, though most do. That's the price you pay for entering comps.
If using gmail, add a +'text' or fullstop to the address, then set up a filter to send those into spam or another folder. Emails still come through no matter where the fullstop is (+'text' must be at the end).
Be aware you may need to check spam often to see if you actually won
eg: [email protected], try [email protected] or [email protected]
What's cool about this technique is that you can also use it to figure out who's selling your data. If you typically use [email protected] as your email address, and then for gleam.io stuff you use [email protected], and then later discover that you've got all sorts of people sending nonsense and spam to [email protected]? Then the culprit has been revealed. (Not that you can really do much with that information, but still, it sates curiosity.)
I hate the spam mobile calls more. How do people get around it when an entry requires a mobile number?
I assume they have a second phone number for it. I personally never enter the comps that require your phone number or specific address (beyond post code) initially.
I already get enough spam calls just randomly without giving out my number.
Have a separate e-mail for comps?