Spot scam competitions
The warning signs of a fake South African competition: upfront fees, airtime requests, cloned brand pages and winner messages for competitions you never entered.
Read itEntering safely
Entering competitions means handing over personal details. That is fine, within limits. These are the limits.
What is normal to be asked
Your name, an email address or phone number, and sometimes your province or age bracket. That is enough to run a draw and contact a winner.
For some competitions, a till slip number or a unique code from packaging.
What is not normal
Your ID number at entry stage. Some promoters do need it to verify a winner, but that comes after the draw, not before.
Banking details at entry stage. A winner's bank details may be needed to pay out a cash prize, again after the draw and through a channel you can verify.
Your password to anything, ever.
Keep marketing consent separate
Under POPIA, a promoter has to get your agreement separately before marketing to you. Entering a competition is not the same as signing up for their mailing list.
That means you can enter without opting into marketing. Look for separate tick boxes, and leave the marketing ones unticked if you do not want the email.
Where Yebo Wins hosts the entry form, those boxes are always separate and never pre-ticked, and you can withdraw any of it later from your account.
Use an address you control
Plenty of regular entrants keep one email address for competitions. It keeps the rest of your inbox clean and makes it obvious when something has been passed on.