Thursday, August 4, 2011

Have US99 and other radio stations deleted your accounts?

It might be a good idea to make a separate user account not associated with your radio station accounts, if you have been using the same email or name for both you are making it very easy for them to track you. Using two different computers, or perhaps even browsers, might be a good idea also. I am not trying to promote cheating or fraud, just answer your question. I have heard that this happened to several people, and some were able to get the radio accounts back, which I consider very fortunate for them. If you are sharing codes or answers on here, or elsewhere, you are not following the rules and you are guilty of fraud. Deleting your account is the least of what they could do - they certainly have the option to pursue legal action, especially if prizes were won and claimed. Generally the amount (value of the prizes) does not make it worth their time to pursue, lawyers are expensive, but I would be very wary if I won a large prize or a number of prizes whose value is significant when combined. Some of the larger stations likely have an attorney on staff or retainer, so they would be the ones most likely to take that step. I am pretty sure that no one would want to have to reimburse the radio station for the value of what they received, or have a conviction for fraud, which would affect you very negatively in many things for the rest of your life. Think for just a moment about how difficult it would be to find a job, or collect government benefits, or any number of other things with such a conviction. Whether you actually read the terms and conditions when you created your account or not, you still agreed to them and are therefore legally responsible for abiding by them. I totally understand peoples' frustration with this recently, but you put yourself in that position by sharing codes or answers, and they have every right to delete your account. You can pursue it directly with the station, as the other answerer has suggested, and if they are gracious enough to reinstate it, you should be very careful in the future as I do not see them granting that sort of concession more than once. Good luck!

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