GameShow Overview

Vodacom Yebo Millionaires is a loyalty programme that is exclusive to all Vodacom customers (Contract, Top Up and Prepaid customers). Yebo Millionaires is an opportunity for Vodacom to say thank you to our customers in South Africa.

All Vodacom customers receive two FREE SMS’s every week to enter Yebo Millionaires. These SMSs are loaded every Tuesday morning.

How to enter Vodacom YEBO Millionaires

All entries must be sent via SMS to 32082 and only entries received before 12h00 on Tuesdays will go into the draw for that week. You can enter the competition in one of three ways:

• SMS any nine alphabet letters (from A-Z) to 32082 in any order. E.g. AA or CBA
• Wait for a confirmation SMS that includes your reference number and draw date.
• Retain this SMS as proof of entry

• Your entry is instantly added to the weekly lucky draw

2. UPICK (Vodacom randomly picks nine letters for you, for the next 4 consecutive draws)

In case you struggle to come up with nine letters every week then:

• SMS the word UPICK to 32082 and Vodacom will randomly generate nine letters on your behalf.
• Your UPICK entry will automatically be entered for the next four consecutive draws.
• Your UPICK entry will use your available free weekly SMSs first.
• Each UPICK SMS will count as one entry.
• Youwill receive an SMS confirmation with a reference number and draw date for each UPICK entry. Retain this SMS as proof of entry.
• After the four consecutive draws are used, an SMS reminder is sent to re-enter your UPICK entry.
• If you have entered more than two UPICK entries, additional entries will be charged at R1.00 per entry.

3. SAME (send the same nine lucky letters for the next four consecutive draws)

In case you are attached to a specific nine letter word then:

• SMS SAME followed by a space and nine lucky letters to 32082 to enter your same lucky nine letter word for the next four consecutive draws.
• Your SAME entry will use your available free SMSs weekly first.
• Each SAME SMS will count as one entry.
• You will receive an SMS confirmation with a reference number and draw date for each SAME entry. Retain this SMS as proof of entry.
• After the four cons an ecutive draws are used,SMS reminder is sent to re-enter your SAME entry again
• If you have entered more than two “SAME” entries, additional entries will be charged at R1.00 per entry

Once-off qualifying question for first time players:

Customers sending their nine letters to 32082 for the first time will receive a simple multi-choice question that must be answered correctly to qualify to play the game.

The customer only needs to answer the question correctly once in order to play as many times as they like thereafter.

Once this question is answered correctly his/her entries will be accepted for that specific weekly draw and the customer can carry sending his/her entries to Yebo Millionaires week after week.

The qualifying once-off question is:

“On which TV channel can you watch Vodacom Yebo Millionaires?” 

1) SABC 1, 

2) SABC 2 or 

3) SABC 3?

Reply: 1 (just press reply on your cellphone and type 1)

The customer will be in the game forever and do not have to answer the qualifying question again.

Once the qualifying question is answered correctly, the customer will receive a confirmation SMS containing the letters that were entered as well as a reference number. The SMS will include the date of the draw.

This once-off qualifying question applies to all three entry options.

In the event customers answer the question incorrectly they will receive an SMS indicating that they needs to answer the qualifying question correctly before they can enter the game. If customers continue sending the incorrect answer to the qualifying question they will continue receiving this message until they finally succeed to answer it correctly. Only the first incorrect message are free as customers receive two free SMSs to play every week. After two incorrect SMSs the customer will be charged R1.00 per message.

If the qualifying question is incorrect the customer’s Yebo Millionaires entries will not be consider into the draw.

Entries sent where the qualifying question is not answered within the current draw period will be disregarded once the current draw is done on the system and the customer will be re-prompted to answer the qualifying question on their next entry (after the current draw). 

Entries close at 12h00 every Tuesday, the day of the draw. A random selection mechanism is used to choose the nine winning letters and the weekly results are audited by Vodacom's independent auditors. The winning letters will be revealed on a televised game show that takes place on SABC 1 on Tuesdays just before 18h30 (after the Bold and the Beautiful).

A customer who has a nine letter match can win R1 million, those who have an eight letter match can win R200 000, for a seven letter match customers will receive R29.00 airtime and for a six letter match customers will receive R12.00 airtime. Vodacom Contract customers who win airtime can nominate a Prepaid number to receive the airtime. Ten LG cellphones are given away during the weekly lucky draw and a Toyota Yaris is given away in a monthly lucky draw on the last Tuesday of every month.

Please note that all cash prizes (nine letter and eight letter matches) are shared between the winners of a specific draw. This means that in the event of more than one winner of a nine or eight letter match, the winner will share the million Rand or the R200 000 with other winners for that specific draw.