Following the closing of the competition, routine verification checks are being made on all of the votes that have been cast.
A number of votes on your project have been flagged for further investigation, an outline of the issues identified is as below:
A number of votes were placed from 4 locations using email addresses that appear to not be real.
There could be a legitimate reason for this activity. Therefore, we request that you provide any details about the circumstances of these votes, that could help us in this verification process.
We remind all projects that, as stated in the competition T&Cs, if M&S identifies or suspects fraudulent voting activity has taken place, including, but not limited to, false email addresses, false social media accounts, duplicate email addresses or the use of disposable email accounts, the fraudulent votes will be removed from the project total, at the discretion of M&S, and may result in disqualification from the Competition.
Please respond by 5pm on Friday 3rd November 2017, any responses received after this time may not be considered as part of the verification process.
Many thanks,
The M&S Energy Community Energy Fund Team