industry awards Archives - Adam's Blog https://adamsblog.uk/tag/industry-awards/ My Thoughts Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:10:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://adamsblog.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Adams-Blog-logo-cropped-square-96x96.jpg industry awards Archives - Adam's Blog https://adamsblog.uk/tag/industry-awards/ 32 32 169180889 The ‘Industry Awards’ Scam https://adamsblog.uk/the-industry-awards-scam/ https://adamsblog.uk/the-industry-awards-scam/#respond Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:10:11 +0000 https://adamsblog.uk/?p=393 My business Storm DJs often gets emails/calls from ‘awards’ companies which invite us to ‘industry awards’. From the outset this concept seems nice, and perfectly logical as Storm is an industry leader. However, the reality of these so-called ‘awards’ is nothing but a con. Basically the only way to get an award is to pay […]

The post The ‘Industry Awards’ Scam appeared first on Adam's Blog.

]]> My business Storm DJs often gets emails/calls from ‘awards’ companies which invite us to ‘industry awards’. From the outset this concept seems nice, and perfectly logical as Storm is an industry leader. However, the reality of these so-called ‘awards’ is nothing but a con. Basically the only way to get an award is to pay a fee.

Now correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t paying a fee to be a candidate the same as paying for an award?

I’m fully aware that this type of activity occurs in many industries, and is the most biased and consumer-unfriendly guidance that exists.

I’ve attached a screenshot of a recent email we received with the same business model.

Wikipedia has defined such fake awards as ‘vanity awards’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_award

A useful full article by Jim Dee about the scam is here.

The post The ‘Industry Awards’ Scam appeared first on Adam's Blog.

]]> https://adamsblog.uk/the-industry-awards-scam/feed/ 0 393