Aaliyah

Jul 28, 2025

a FULL deepdive yap on this unfortunately successful scam.

I first tried this company a few years ago. The advertisement stated *Free* $750 after completing surveys and deals. I would reach levels 1-4 with little to no issue (deals not qualifying even if done immediately after sign up, deals taking me to links flagged as unsecured though being listed as top companies such as the Disney+ deal for example which would take me to a site of nothing but gibberish). The issues would worsen in the levels right before cashing out/cashing out early, such as deals no longer existing (Merit platinum for example, I opened the site and it said accounts were not available to open at that time and since then I have never seen a screen that isn't that one show up.). I haven't even reached the possibility to verify my identity due to these issues, let alone ever won anything. I've also noticed that this "rewards program" company promotes their deals through social media creators, yet in the promotions they require creators to turn on commenting limits, with the other comments on the page all being paid and/or botted positive reviews. (Take Ekane for example, she has promoted this service quite a bit but in all content surrounding that she has to turn comments off, and the content consists of just pictures with her face and the company's deals and links on top compared to all her other promotions and content being video form with no comment limits.) This 'rewards program" also eventually runs out of free deals once in the later stages, making it basically necessary to pay money to win (we love false advertisement! free gift in the big bold print but having to pay more than $20 to even win anything WOOOOOOOOO) The most recent attempt I made to complete this offer was a few hours ago, just to see the exact same issues occur even after all these years, which lead me to do some research. Though differing state to state, charging money to win anything is commonly considered as an illegal lottery, and while adding "free" ways to do deals, the majority of free deals also make you repeat more deals afterwards which once again considers it an illegal lottery as paying money increases your probability of qualifying. Though I've noticed this company is based in New York, and in New York all online real money sweepstakes are illegal alongside any form of private lottery system, and with the specific federal statutes prohibiting the act of charging money to excel in any competition, lottery, or sweepstakes, I doubt the Terms&Cond of this company would even be affective against that. Even if you've paid, it's still excessively hard to win anything so I guess there's that. I also realized that in every response to a review, they mention that the reviewer won even if that reviewer says that they haven't, which is also a bit ethically questionable especially when considering there's also a lot of positive reviews that say the exact same things or things that don't even correlate with a rewards program (I saw about 20 of them considering this as a fast food restaurant with 5 stars, and a few as a grocery store). Adding on the fact to even get far enough to see that it's unlikely to win takes a lot of time and effort, likely even money too, and that even the majority of people who do win don't claim the full prize, it's not that unlikely to see a big class action lawsuit ad about this company sometime in the near future. Honestly all around and back to town again, Flash Rewards is absolutely vile, I wouldn't wish this on even the worst of my enemies. You could probably make more and do less by selling paper airplanes to American Airlines.