Enter an exclusive Hilton competition just for American Express Platinum cardholders

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• Jimmy says:

  3 Mar3 March 11:35

  Rob – only my opinion, but if you’re unable to verify the authenticity of this competition, I’d suggest you pull this article pronto as it is encouraging unsuspecting readers to open themselves up to potential fraud. You may also wish to email all readers to warn anyone who has already provided their contact details about this potential fraud.

  • Rob says:

    3 Mar3 March 12:41

    You don’t have a lifetime experience of Hilton and Amex’s flakey IT though 🙂

    Sometimes the level of amateurishness with these things is a sign it is genuine.

• Alexey says:

  3 Mar3 March 12:42

  check who registered site i.e. some individual in Gloucester , it is definitely looks suspicious to me

  • RussellH says:

    3 Mar3 March 17:13

    It is not “some individual in Gloucester”. The Gloucester details are those for 1AND1.com, the hosting company, who are well known. ( I have zilch experience of their services, though – I try to steer well clear of large firms of this type ).

    Of course, this does not mean it is not a scam.

    I take Rob’s point about Hilton and Amex’s IT – I have benefited nicely from Hilton’s, with extra p[oints just turning up in my account, and suffered from Amex’s, But I fully accept that it looks a little odd.

    I do think, though, that the time for real caution is if/when people win. If lots of people win, then it is a scam, I would think, but at this stage no card details have been harvested.

• Ryan says:

  3 Mar3 March 14:13

  I have a question about the AMEX platinum, unrelated to this competition. Lets say I apply for the plantinum card, get the 30,000 points bonus and then apply for the standard green american express rewards card and open it on the same reards account. I then cancel the platinum card for a pro-rata refund but keep my account open with the green card.

  Will I still keep the 30,000 bonus points or are amex likely to take them away from me because I’d be cancelling the platinum card after just a month or two?

  • Genghis says:

    3 Mar3 March 14:30

    Or ARCC?

  • TGLoyalty says:

    3 Mar3 March 15:28

    You can change/apply for any MR earning card and you won’t lose your points.

    ARCC would be a good choice

• Tom1 says:

  3 Mar3 March 15:04

  Ok a bit more info for you all to put some minds at rest and give you the opportunity to enter before the deadline. I saw it on Thursday, posted in the comments here on hfp, then found the link to send to Rob late on Friday – not long before midnight. I have taken a lot from the members of this site so rather than keep it to myself I felt I should reciprocate. I didn’t intend to create a rivalry of who is the best at avoiding scams!

  In Facebook , by clicking the menu and choosing ‘recent ad activity’ , you can see the ads you have interacted with. So i have found it.

  The ad was posted by (not on) the official American Express UK Facebook page – It has the blue authenticity tick by the name. Clicking the page title takes you straight to the @AmericanExpressUK Facebook page – but the article isn’t posted in their page. I suspect it was a targeted add hence why not for all to see.

  Interestingly the link printed on the ad is actually Amex.co – but it is truncated so you can’t see the full link (at least not from the app). Only when clicking the link did it redirect to the dodgy looking one that is shared above. So Amex I assume never intended for anyone to see the promo entries link – only a link to their own site that redirects to the one above.

  Before I entered I did a quick risk/reward and was happy with the the balance.
  So up to you all if you want to enter – if anyone does receive any correspondence I suggest you take the advice above and take care to verify the authenticity of the promo before sharing more of your identity.
  Good luck ????

  (rob I’ll send you the screenshot of the ad)

  • Rob says:

    3 Mar3 March 15:22

    Now added in to the article, thanks Tom.

• TripRep says:

  3 Mar3 March 19:38

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• Dale says:

  3 Mar3 March 20:40

  Irresponsible to promote this without verifying it first. There could well be liability if people have given details based solely on the information provided by this site.

  Like others I am wondering why this wasn’t promoted to Platinum cardholders direct by AMEX

  • Rob says:

    3 Mar3 March 22:20

    As you can see from the screenshot, Amex’s own Facebook account is promoting this. Not sure what other proof you need.

    Our journalism wouldn’t get very far if we needed a higher standard of proof than that for what we write 🙂

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