It’s that time of the year again - festive fun, parties, stressful shopping missions and seemingly endless costs - but Wonga is offering you the chance to win Christmas on us!

We have TEN cash prizes to pay out on Christmas Eve and all you have to do make sure your name’s in the hat is recommend our award-winning service to your friends.

The winner, to be chosen at random, will receive a cool grand in their bank and we’ve also got nine runner-up prizes of a handy hundred quid.

You can use our easy email form to send a message in a few clicks and we’ll even include a promo code for first-time customers as a little present.

You can find out more and see the T&Cs here. So if you are a happy customer and think you know people who genuinely might be interested in our online cash advance service, start spreading the word today for your chance to win Christmas on us!

Please note that we don’t tolerate spam, so please only tell people you know well and who you have good reason to believe might be interested in Wonga.

If you love Wonga’s flexible cash advance service and have a Facebook account, you could win a prize that will put a smile on your face more than once. Simply become a fan before the end of September 2009 and we could become your biggest fan for the rest of the year. 

A huge thank you to everyone who took part in Wonga’s birthday celebrations last month by telling their friends about our online loan service. Well over a thousand customers used our simple referral form and went into the hat to win one of our cash prizes.

The lucky winner was Victoria Haxton, who told us the champagne was on ice by the time the wonga hit her bank account (and that was fast as usual). Of her surprise call, she said “Wow!!!”

She then continued in an email: “I never win things and have to admit I have often thought that prize draws are a con… But not anymore and I’m still pinching myself.

“I was so surpised to get the call today, just as I was wading through paperwork with the car tax due and other nasties. What fantastic timing! Thanks Wonga, you’re a superb company who have realised that sometimes you only need to borrow a small amount of cash and often just for a few days.”

Victoria’s delight was shared by our runners-up, Elaine Jones and Amanda Mackinnon. Thank you again to everyone who took part and better luck next time. Don’t forget you can easily tell your friends about Wonga’s award-winning service every month!

It’s hard to believe, for us at least, but Wonga.com is a year-old this month. We’ve actually been providing the UK’s most flexible loan service for over a year, but the Wonga website received its full launch just 12 months ago.

In that time we’ve achieved some genuine firsts in the credit world, helped lots of people with our online cash advances and recently provided our 100,000th short term loan. If you’ll permit us to do some brief birthday bragging, we’ve also won some top awards and received loads of great feedback from our customers.

So we’re celebrating our ‘coming of age’ throughout July, by offering customers the chance to win some big cash prizes. Simply by helping us spread the word about our award-winning service, your name will be entered into our birthday draw. You can find out more and get involved at our birthday prize draw page.

Thanks for using Wonga during our first year and we hope to be of service for many more to come…

The team has been all smiles this week, after Wonga provided its 100,000th short term loan. Not bad considering we launched the site less than a year ago!

Our congratulations go to KT, of Chester le Street, who received our 100,000th cash advance and wins a year’s interest-free use of Wonga’s award-winning service. Lucky lady. 

So why have we helped so many happy customers in such a relatively short space of time? Well we set out with a simple yet challenging idea - to offer UK consumers a short term and transparent alternative to traditional lenders.

We all have Wonga moments, when an unexpected or urgent expense springs up from nowhere - and it always seems to happen at a bad time. We help people solve short term cash flow problems without requiring a long term commitment, and we do it in the most flexible and responsible way possible.

People love the convenience, control and complete transparency we offer. It’s perhaps best summed up by a few of our customers themselves…

 Hi, I must take time to thank you for accepting my recent application and for the amazing speed of the transfer (30 minutes - has to be a record!). I hope very much to be able to use the service again, especially when a direct debit is due a couple of days before pay day and the banks are their usually helpful self (not!). Love your website too - refreshing and well laid out. Best wishes to all your staff.  

AF, Liverpool

 

 Hello guys/girls. I’ve actually already repaid my loan early, but I just wanted to say a huge ‘thank you’ for making this service available. I used it to cover an unexpected cost and, to be honest, I could’ve asked my bank, but your service was just SO much easier AND quicker. And because I repaid it quickly, it cost me next to nothing! You guys are DIAMONDS! And I always think it’s nice to say ‘thanks’ when someone does me a good turn.  

Martin T, Barnsley

 

 Please accept my thanks to yourself and your company. I was at first dubious about using an online service in this way and did not expect the level of service I received. You did exactly what you said you would and in a very efficient manner.  The cost of using your service compared to other providers is night and day. I did not have to worry about cheques clearing, high costs, uncertainty and of course wasted time.  A first class service, more service sector companies should take a leaf out of your book

James K, Shrophsire

We’ve become the country’s only 24/7 lender, guaranteeing cash deposits within an hour around the clock. So when you’re caught short and need some fast cash for a few days or weeks, give Wonga’s online application a go. You can decide exactly how much money you need and then determine the cost by selecting when to repay us.

We can’t guarantee approval, because we’re only interested in helping people who can afford the service, but you’ll get an instant answer either way.

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Apply for a Wonga loan before the end of June and you may get more than you bargained for. If you’re accepted, not only will the cash hit your account within an hour as normal, but you might just be named one of our lucky ‘100k’ winners too.

As the Financial Times recently reported, we are due to provide our 100,000th Wonga loan before the end of this month. And that’s despite the fact we launched the Wonga site less than a year ago! Our service has proved even more popular than we imagined and it’s partly thanks to our happy customers spreading the word.

To celebrate this milestone, we’ve decided to create some exciting prizes. The person who is accepted for our 100,000th cash advance will receive interest-free Wonga loans for an entire year! Subject to our usual approval process, they will have instant cash advances at their disposal for 12 whole months and won’t pay a penny in interest or fees.

Not only that, but we’ll also wipe our charges for the next 50 successful applicants as a one-off celebration. You can find out more and check out the T&Cs at our 100,000 loans page. So good luck if you are using Wonga this month, but please remember that a chance-based celebration like this isn’t a reason to apply for credit you don’t need in the first place.  

Thanks again to all our customer for helping us hit this impressive mark sometime soon…

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One of these shiny prizes could be yours if you enter the Wonga video competition. It’s easy - simply make a short clip about why you like Wonga and put it on YouTube to help spread the word about our flexible loan service.

Here’s an existing video about Wonga if you need some inspiration, but your entry can be much simpler and could even be shot on your mobile. It’s the quality of the content we’re interested in, not the production values! So just have fun and get creative. You’ve got until the end of April.

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We have a winner of our Wonga Moments competition! There were some great stories about why people had used the service and it was a tricky job to select the most unusual or heart warming one.

From stag weekends to last minute wedding emergencies and dream birthday presents to poems about unexpected bills, the judges were debating for hours. Well, at least an hour!

But Lucie in Hove is the winner of the Sony Video Walkman. Her emotional recounting of the birth of some kittens had us weeeping into our man-size tissues. All together now, aaaaaaarrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh.

It seems a medical difficulty during the birth required emergency help from a vet. And that’s never cheap. Wonga saved the day by providing the short-term cash to cover the costs and it all ended happily with five healthy kittens.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to enter and better luck next time.

Don’t forget our ‘Wonga Moments’ competition is ending this week. This is your last chance to win a cool Sony Video Walkman, worth over £100, simply by telling us how Wonga has helped you in the past. We’ve already had some great stories, but you’ve got to be in it to win it!

It’s easy to enter - you can either leave a comment, or drop us a brief email to competitions@wonga.com. More details are available in the previous post below. We’ll decide which is the most unusual, warmest or amusing Wonga Moment very soon…