If they send you an email to the winners does it say who the email is from...like Bing...

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Yes, the information in the email sent is detailed.

While I did not know about this, I would say that the winners were notified. I received an Email on Oct. 1st for winning a gratuity from the Ascend: Hand of Kul beta. So more than likely you were not a winner

Yep Tater is right, also with Swagbucks you can get Gamestop gift cards, which you can redeem for Microsoft gift cards. It works online and gamestop will send you a gift card via email just like Bing rewards does.

Does anyone even look here? I get the impression after being shoveled from one support stream to another, from phone to email, from email to phone, from Xbox to Bing, from Bing to Xbox...to Forums? This is where my solution will happen?

I explicitly asked for an escalation.

I ALSO got an almost identical email from HelloWorld on 8/23 saying i am a winner in this same sweepstakes. My email looks almost identical to the attached email, with the same attachments etc. Like other users, i am suspicious because the winners were to be announced by 6/14. Also, the email tells me to fax a form that includes my social security number within 7 days or i forfeit the price.

It also seems suspicious that at least 3 different people all got a prize notification from HelloWorld on 8/23, especially when the winners were supposed to be announced earlier.

Finally, it doesnt seem to be possible to contact HelloWorld at all. Their website does not include a phone number and while they have a form to send a message to them, i have tried using it multiple times using 3 different browsers, and my phone plus my computer, and i always get an error message that says the message did not go through. With no ability to get in touch with them in any way i am not going to give my SS% out.