Contest Scam? Ashwin Khanna Would Know!
Posted on August 22, 2007 | By Enkay | Leave a Comment | 850 Views
So today I received an email from Coolio Jones who owns a blog called My New Hustle where he recently talked about the contest that Ashwin Khanna had running. If you don’t recall, this is the same competition that was giving away $2500 in cash and being a start up blog nobody believed it. After Ashwin tried to assure everything was legit, he actually got so many entries that his Technorati was boosted to 8k within a few weeks. Nice huh? Well, not really. Ashwin made a really big mistake. Such a big mistake that it is going to cost him.
He awarded the winner on his blog and turns out that the blog the prize was awarded to wreaks of dishonesty. Ashwin seems to have created the blog himself and created a post a day before his own contest ended. Surprising thing was, that the blog only had one post on it. You guessed it, the entry into the contest. Since the blog that won is a Wordpress based blog, nobody can verify whether Ashwin owns it but there is something definitely fishy here. I was so disappointed in the whole event, that I am not even going to post a link to Ashwin’s blog here, nor am I going to refer to him in the future.
I call upon the blogosphere to unite and know that if someone is going to scam us, then they don’t deserve a second chance. If you entered the contest, I urge you to boycott Ashwin Khanna and remove the post or edit the post and remove his linkbacks and proceed to ping Technorati by going here. I didn’t enter the contest, but once again, scamming someone for their time is not acceptable! Thanks again to Coolio for the email! Check out his post to get details about the contest and links to Ashwin’s blog.
Update [August 23rd] - A lot of people asked me for Ashwin Khanna’s website and here it is http://www.ashwinkhanna.com . I will not be linking to the website but you are welcome to copy paste it. Also, if you want to check out a REAL contest with a GREAT prize you can check out my FlippingRich.com T-shirt Giveaway Contest or you can browse over to Prija’s 24 inch LCD Giveaway Contest. Prija shows you how to get paid and he secured a great sponsor thats all about baseball training. So there you go, you can check out two great contests that are REAL! I had the opportunity to blog about Ashwin Khanna’s contest but because it sounded fishy, I stayed away. Most of the contests I post about on the blog will go through my personal filter so do not expect anything fake to make it past me! If in case that does happen, I will call out the blogger with the black heart! Thanks again for reading!
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Hey thanks for posting this, and for not posting a link to his site. I’m going through my posts to delete anything related to this guy. It’s hard enough for honest folks to rise to the top without some kid playing on the goodwill of others.
Hey no problem at all! The last thing he needs is more exposure. Hopefully the link removal will bring his Technorati down!
What a shameful SCAM! The sad part was, Contest Blogger even blog about the contest earlier without checking it’s credibility. Contest Blogger’s readers have been completely duped by the one of the biggest blog contest con-job shams.
That con man even rub salt into the wounds by insulting all who entered the contest when he don’t even bothered to put effort to make it look like there’s a real winner.
To think that Contest Blogger totally ignored my request to help spread word about my earlier contest(on Blogger) which was legit, and instead featured some con job, was to put it mildly, infuriating. But that was all water under the bridge and to err is human, so I totally forgive your oversight, Phil.
Yeah, I don’t know why Ashwin Khanna was hyped so much even when people were unsure about his credibility!
A shameful scam blog promotion - enkay you should give the link. Other reader can give a visit and be aware about this matter.
hey dott-com ure rite enkay should giv the link so that we can be aware of this faker.
how could he do this
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wow, that is really sad that someone would do this. I would rather build to the top than to, shut to the top and be known as a scammer for the rest of my blogging life.