Lately I've been receiving this email about saying 'FREE ERICSSON LAPTOP'... and it really hit my nerves today!!!! I've been receiving 5 similar emails.... man~ why? To be exact, the email is something like this:
Dear all,
Ericsson is distributing free laptops for their brand promotion. They hope to increase their popularity and sale by this campaign. All you need to do is send an email about this promotion to 8 people and you will receive an Ericsson T18 Laptop. However, if you send an email to 20 or more people, you will receive an Ericsson R320 Laptop.
Make sure you cc to Anna at Ericsson so that she will know you have sent the e-mail.
I know having freebies can be overwhelming.. I, myself would love to have the free laptop. Especially laptop... but the thing is.. this is all big fat lie! CRAP!
Personally, why I don't trust the email...
Ericsson laptop? Never heard of it. Its a mobile brand for god's sake. Used to be, because it was later bought by Sony. Ever heard of Sony Ericsson??
Ok.. so I did a search on the Google... I would highly recommend people to do a search on google for any ambigous email e.g. updating your account (I'll post a blog about this), offerings freebies, winning lotteries, granted a will wat so ever... or if you don't want google you can use www.snopes.com. Search in their database.. its worth the time and money! cos time is afterall money.
So running the search, I love this one the most. ( http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ericsson-free-lap-top.shtml ). It says it all: HOAX.. in other words 'You've been fooled' or like Ashton Kutcher would say 'You've been PUNKED!'
The reason why the email has been circulating ever since 8 years ago (yes 8 YeaRs!!!) is because it doesnt mentioned any dates... ppl fell into the trap.. someone changes the mobile to laptop.. and wala~ The key word is that.. People keep on clicking Send... send to all.. send it off...
Only you can stop this.. STOP sending off emails that is not making sense. It pure useless and a waste of time.
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