September 12, 2026
Entry Limits, and the Behaviour That Gets Entries Voided
Most disqualifications are not fraud. They are people misreading a limit and then multiplying it.
Read which unit the limit is in
Limits come in several shapes: one entry per person for the promotion, one per person per day, one per household, or one per email address. These are not the same thing, and a household limit means a second person at the same address does not double the count. Rules also commonly state that in a dispute, the entry is deemed made by the authorised account holder of the email address used, which decides who owns a contested entry.
Per-day versus for the whole promotion
A cap that resets daily behaves completely differently from one that applies once across the entire run, and mixing the two up in either direction causes real problems: entering once and assuming that used up a daily allowance that was actually renewable, or entering daily against a limit that only ever permitted one entry total. The rules state which kind applies, usually in the same sentence as the number itself, and it is worth reading that sentence specifically rather than just the number.
How duplicates get found
Promotions deduplicate on the fields they collect: address, phone number, and email. Address plus name is the usual key, and cosmetic variations on the same address do not create a new person. Administrators handling large promotions do this routinely, and it is checked before an affidavit is ever sent, not after.
Multiple email addresses can trip this by accident
Someone with several personal inboxes, a work address, an old university one, a newer everyday one, can end up entering the same promotion more than once without any intention to cheat, simply by forgetting an earlier entry was made from a different address. Because deduplication runs on the physical address and name rather than only the email, this is caught the same way deliberate duplication is, which is a good reason to keep entries associated with one dedicated address specifically.
The things that void entries
Automated entry scripts and bots are prohibited in essentially every set of rules. So is creating multiple accounts or using multiple addresses to exceed a stated limit, and so is entering from a state or country excluded by the eligibility section. Rules typically state that the promotion may disqualify the person entirely rather than just discard the extra entries, which is a poor trade for a few duplicates.
You will usually never be told
Disqualification for exceeding a limit is typically a silent removal from the eligible pool rather than a notification explaining what happened. An entrant who accidentally duplicated an entry generally just never hears anything back, indistinguishable from having simply lost the draw, which is part of why the mistake so rarely gets corrected by the person who made it.
The cost of a shortcut
The upside of an extra entry is a small change to a small chance. The downside is losing every valid entry you had, including in the same brand future promotions where rules often allow it. Entering the permitted number, on every day the rules allow, is both the compliant approach and the one that produces the largest legitimate share.
Why the compliant route is also the rational one
Every shortcut described here trades a small, uncertain gain for a real chance of losing everything already legitimately earned, which is a poor trade even before considering that the shortcuts rarely produce a meaningful edge in the first place. Entering consistently, within the stated limits, on every day a promotion allows a fresh entry is both the approach the rules actually permit and, over any reasonable stretch of time, the one that produces the most entries that are actually still in the running when a winner gets picked.
A rule simple enough to apply without thinking
Read the limit once per promotion, enter exactly that many times, and skip anything that would require a second account, a second address or a script to pull off. That single habit avoids essentially every disqualification risk covered here, without needing to remember the specific reasoning behind each individual rule every time a new promotion is entered.