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Is bankrupt competitions boss behind new scheme?

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Image caption, Ex-Level Up Giveaways director Anton Hall, pictured in this composite image, has been running new pay-to-enter competitions

When Ami Shuttleworth and her fiance Chris Smith were told they had won £10,000 in a pay-to-enter competition, they immediately knew how they would spend their prize.

"We were over the moon, our wedding was going to be paid off," recalls the 34-year-old mother-of-one from Middlesbrough.

Mel Higgins, 33, also had big plans for the £5,000 she was told she had won.

"I was going to pay off my credit card and whatever was left I was going to put into my business," says the driving consultant from Chippenham.

"I cried my eyes out because I thought, 'this is going to change my life'."

Yet, like many others who were successful playing with Level Up Giveaways, neither of them received a penny of their winnings.

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