Used Snopes again today
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Send this e-mail out to eight friends and you'll get a free Ericsson laptop from Sony! Send twenty and you'll also get a free phone!
For proof that this was NOT a scam, there was a screen shot of a search performed on snopes.com showing the summary page - see, even snopes says it's legit!!!!
Sure enough, searching ericsson laptop returned the exact same SUMMARY page, which if that's all you read, you might indeed get the impression that it was "valid." You don't see the "False" until you click the link on that summary search page.
Apparently the first round of these e-mails was two years ago, and this most recent version includes the "see, snopes says it's legit!" added.
JoAnne Schmitz
wrote:
>For proof that this was NOT a scam, there was a screen shot of a search performed on snopes.com showing the summary page - see, even snopes says it's legit!!!!
>
>Sure enough, searching ericsson laptop returned the exact same SUMMARY page, which if that's all you read, you might indeed get the impression that it was "valid." You don't see the "False" until you click the link on that summary search page.
>
>Apparently the first round of these e-mails was two years ago, and this most recent version includes the "see, snopes says it's legit!" added.
Yep. I got one about throwing out all your cake mixes or you'd die of yeast
spores.
JoAnne "'confirmed by Snopes' is the new black" Schmitz
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